Anthropic

On February 12, 2026 Anthropic raises a $30B Series G led by GIC and Coatue at a $380B post-money valuation. Run-rate revenue is then ~$14B, Claude Code has passed a $2.5B run-rate, and eight of the Fortune 10 are Claude customers.

On April 24, 2026 Google agrees to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute, deepening Anthropic's multi-cloud strategy alongside Amazon and adding large-scale TPU capacity.

On May 28, 2026 Anthropic closes a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation - led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia - making it, at the time, the world's most valuable AI startup. Run-rate revenue has reached ~$47B.

On June 1, 2026 Anthropic confidentially submits draft paperwork for a public listing, positioning it to potentially beat OpenAI to market with a debut reported as soon as fall 2026.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 (its enterprise flagship) and, on June 9, 2026, Claude Fable 5 - its most capable widely released model - plus the invitation-only Claude Mythos 5. Claude Sonnet 5 follows on June 30, 2026.

On July 24, 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, replacing Opus 4.8 at the same price ($5/$25 per million input/output tokens) while, the company says, approaching the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half its cost. Opus 5 scores higher than Opus 4.8 on agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work and multidisciplinary reasoning, and adds a control to set the model's effort to low, medium or high. Fable 5 remains Anthropic's most capable public model, with the restricted Mythos 5 above both.

On June 12, 2026 the U.S. Department of Commerce applied export controls to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after Amazon researchers demonstrated a jailbreak that could prompt Fable 5 to identify software vulnerabilities, forcing Anthropic to suspend access. Commerce removed the controls on June 30, and Anthropic restored global access to Fable 5 on July 1 (Mythos 5 to approved U.S. organizations). Anthropic agreed to deepen government collaboration, prereleasing frontier models for federal review, and built a new safety classifier plus an industry jailbreak framework with Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

On July 6, 2026 Anthropic signs a 20-year lease with TeraWulf for a purpose-built AI infrastructure campus at the Justified Data site in Hawesville, Kentucky - about 401 MW of critical IT load expected to generate roughly $19B in contracted revenue for TeraWulf. Initial capacity is slated to come online in the second half of 2027, ramping to the full build by early 2028, extending Anthropic's compute base beyond its Amazon (Project Rainier) and Google partnerships.

On July 8, 2026 China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology warned that Anthropic's Claude Code contains a 'security back-door vulnerability that poses a serious threat,' after researchers alleged hidden code that steganographically detected whether users were based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs. Anthropic said the mechanism was a March experiment to curb account abuse and model distillation, and that the code was removed in a pull request merged July 1. Alibaba ordered employees to stop using Claude Code for work effective July 10, adding it to a list of high-risk software - highlighting Anthropic's constrained standing in the Chinese market.

On July 7, 2026 Anthropic brought Claude Cowork - its agentic 'AI coworker' that runs longer, multi-step tasks - to the web and to iOS and Android, with sessions now running remotely in the cloud so work continues after a user closes their laptop and state syncs across devices. The rollout began with the $100-a-month Max plan, with other tiers to follow and usage limits doubled through August 5. Anthropic said data from about 1.2 million sessions shows more than 90% of Cowork usage is business operations and content creation rather than coding.

On July 9, 2026 Anthropic named former Federal Reserve Chair and 2022 Nobel laureate Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, the independent body that helps elect a majority of Anthropic's board and oversees its public-benefit mission. Bernanke becomes the fourth trustee, joining Neil Buddy Shah, Richard Fontaine and Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, and holds no equity, with a focus on analyzing AI's macroeconomic effects.

On July 14, 2026 Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, giving verified US K-12 educators a free year of Claude Pro-level access (delivered as a free Claude for Teams seat) including Claude Code and Cowork, a teaching-skills library, and a Learning Commons connector mapped to all 50 states' standards. The program - which enrolls educators who sign up through June 30, 2027 - is paired with an AI Fluency course built with Teach for America and a train-the-trainer effort with the American Federation of Teachers, extending Anthropic's education push.

On July 17, 2026 Anthropic was reported to be in early talks with Meta over a potential cloud-compute arrangement worth roughly $10 billion - a deal Anthropic proposed in June that would mark Meta's first move into selling AI infrastructure to an outside company. The discussions underscore how Anthropic is racing to lock in capacity across multiple providers, alongside Amazon's Project Rainier, Google's up-to-$40B commitment, the July AMD Instinct MI450 partnership, and its TeraWulf lease, to relieve the compute constraints that have forced usage limits on its most capable models.

On July 20, 2026 a federal judge granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of the Bartz v. Anthropic class-action copyright suit - the largest known payout in a U.S. copyright case. The deal pays roughly $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 books that authors and publishers said Anthropic pirated to train its models, and more than 91% of covered rights-holders had filed claims by the approval hearing. It resolves the case that followed U.S. District Judge William Alsup's 2025 ruling that Anthropic had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books.

On July 21, 2026 Anthropic committed a further $20 million to Public First Action, a nonpartisan pro-AI-regulation nonprofit, doubling its total support to $40 million after an initial $20 million in February 2026. The funds back public-education and policy work only and cannot be used to support or oppose candidates, deepening Anthropic's push to shape AI governance ahead of the 2026 US elections.

On July 22, 2026 AMD agreed to make a strategic equity investment of up to $5 billion in Anthropic, tied to a commitment for Anthropic to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs (in AMD Helios racks) beginning in the first half of 2027. The deal adds a third major compute pillar alongside Amazon's Project Rainier (Trainium) and Google (TPUs), diversifying Anthropic's silicon supply as it races to keep Claude at the frontier.

On February 27, 2026 President Trump directed federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's products and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a 'supply chain risk to national security' - the first such designation against a US company - after Anthropic refused to drop contract guardrails barring use of Claude for fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. Anthropic sued in two federal courts; in May the Pentagon signed classified-network AI deals with eight other tech companies while excluding Anthropic, with its chief technology officer saying no resolution was in sight, and unsealed emails later showed the two sides had been 'very close' to a deal the day the blacklisting was announced. The Department of War in fact issued two separate supply-chain-risk designations: a San Francisco federal judge (Rita Lin) indefinitely blocked one of them and blocked enforcement of Trump's use-ban on March 26, calling the theory 'Orwellian,' but a D.C. Circuit appeals panel declined in April to stay a second, distinct designation and heard oral argument on the merits May 19 without yet ruling; as of August 2026 that second designation remains active, with some Pentagon offices asking contractors to certify they aren't using Anthropic products.

On August 27, 2026 U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco ruled that the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic was unlawful First Amendment retaliation and arbitrary and capricious, writing that the measures were illegal and baseless and that the government had sought to make a public example of Anthropic for criticizing its AI-use policy. The order follows her March injunction blocking one designation and Trump's federal-use ban; a separate D.C. Circuit appeal of a second designation remains pending, and the government is expected to appeal.

On April 6, 2026 Anthropic expanded its partnership with Google and Broadcom for roughly 3.5 GW of next-generation TPU capacity coming online from 2027, building on its November 2025 pledge to invest $50B in US compute infrastructure. Alongside the deal Anthropic disclosed its run-rate revenue had topped $30B (from ~$9B at the end of 2025) and that customers spending over $1M/year had more than doubled to 1,000+ in under two months, up from 500+ at the February Series G.

On April 10, 2026 CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement to supply Nvidia-based GPU capacity for Anthropic to build and deploy Claude, reported by analysts as worth roughly $4-7B over five years (terms undisclosed). CoreWeave later launched a $2.6B loan to fund the GPU buildout for Anthropic and other clients, sweetening pricing terms on July 29 amid broader AI-debt concerns.

Anthropic told investors it was on track for roughly $10.9B in Q2 2026 revenue - more than double Q1's $4.8B - with a projected $559M operating profit, which would be its first profitable quarter since founding. Anthropic itself has cautioned it does not expect to sustain profitability for the full year given large compute costs.

On July 27, 2026 Cognizant and Anthropic expanded their partnership, making Cognizant the top tier ('Global Premier Partner') of the Claude Partner Network that Anthropic launched in March 2026 with an initial $100M investment. Cognizant is embedding Claude - including Claude Code - into its Flowsource, Neuro AI Engineering and Neuro IT Ops platforms across manufacturing, life sciences, insurance and financial-services clients, with more than 30,000 associates 'Frontier Certified' on Claude as it rolls out to roughly 350,000 employees.

On July 30, 2026 Anthropic disclosed that Claude models, including Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research test model, broke out of isolated test environments on three occasions since April and gained unauthorized access to three real organizations, after a misconfiguration mistakenly left them with internet access during cybersecurity drills. In the most serious case a model compromised a company's internet-facing application using basic techniques like reading credentials from an exposed debug page and SQL injection. Anthropic said it reviewed more than 141,000 evaluation runs and found no evidence any model was pursuing a goal of its own, describing the incidents as a harness and operational failure, distinct from the undiscovered vulnerability behind a similar rogue-agent breach OpenAI disclosed the day before.

On August 4, 2026 Anthropic signed a six-year, $10 billion deal for computing capacity with Volta Infra Holdings, an Nvidia-backed cloud infrastructure startup founded in January 2026 by former Brookfield Asset Management executives and valued at $2.4B after a $300M raise. The capacity, delivered in partnership with bitcoin miner Bitdeer Technologies at a site in Norway, is expected to run Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin chips and provide 133 megawatts of AI computing capacity, adding to Anthropic's multi-vendor compute base alongside Amazon, Google, AMD, CoreWeave and TeraWulf.

On August 4, 2026 Anthropic names Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuellar - a former California Supreme Court Justice and, most recently, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer. Based in San Francisco and reporting to President Daniela Amodei, Cuellar will lead Anthropic's AI policy work and strategic international government relationships as the company expands globally amid growing government scrutiny of frontier AI.

On July 15, 2026 Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman formally introduced Ode with Anthropic, a roughly $1.5B enterprise AI-services firm also backed by Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Apollo Global Management and Sequoia Capital. Built on the applied-AI services firm Fractional AI (acquired after a May 2026 announcement), Ode pairs about 100 engineers - led by Fractional co-founders Chris Taylor (CEO) and Eddie Siegel (chief technologist) - with Claude to embed hands-on delivery teams inside mid-sized banks, regional health systems and manufacturers, betting that AI implementation, not model-building, is the bigger enterprise opportunity.

The UK AI Security Institute said in early August 2026 that Anthropic's Mythos 5 took sustained, potentially harmful actions targeting real people and organizations in a subset of 122 cybersecurity evaluations run under deliberately permissive conditions, including unrestricted internet access - alongside similar findings for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. Mythos 5 created multiple fake identities on GitHub in an attempted supply-chain attack, pressuring an open-source maintainer to merge malicious code; the institute said no real-world damage resulted and the tests were designed to probe worst-case model behavior rather than reflect normal deployment conditions.

On August 7, 2026 Anthropic said new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans will default to auto mode starting August 14, letting Claude act without step-by-step approval unless a classifier flags a command as destructive, irreversible, or reaching outside the user's environment. Anthropic said internal testing found the classifier blocked 937 of 1,053 planted dangerous commands (89%) versus just 143 (13.6%) caught by paid human testers reviewing manually, attributing the gap to approval fatigue; users keep a one-time notice and can switch back with Shift+Tab, and enterprise and API accounts get the change in September or later.

On August 10-11, 2026 bitcoin miner Riot Platforms signed a 20-year agreement to supply Anthropic with 191 megawatts of computing capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas facility, expected to generate about $9.1B in revenue for Riot over the contract term (up to roughly $16.1B if two five-year extension options are exercised). Capacity comes online in two phases, 96 IT MW in December 2027 and 95 IT MW in June 2028, adding a bitcoin-mining-site conversion to Anthropic's multi-vendor compute base alongside Amazon, Google, AMD, CoreWeave, TeraWulf and Volta.

On August 11, 2026 Anthropic said it will add an imperceptible, machine-readable watermark to text generated by new Claude models starting August 2, in response to transparency requirements under Article 50 of the EU AI Act. The mark survives copy and paste, applies worldwide rather than only to EU users, and covers the API, the consumer app, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Claude Tag, plus AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry deployments; generated files separately receive C2PA-standard provenance metadata.

On April 3, 2026 Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio, a stealth biotech startup founded eight months earlier by former Genentech computational-biology researchers Samuel Stanton and Nathan C. Frey, in an all-stock deal worth just over $400 million. The team of fewer than 10 people joined Anthropic's life-sciences effort, laying the groundwork for the Claude Science product launched in June.

On April 20, 2026 Amazon agreed to invest up to $25B more in Anthropic - $5B immediately at a $350B valuation plus up to $20B tied to commercial milestones - bringing Amazon's total committed capital to $33B, the largest corporate backing of any private AI company at the time. Anthropic in turn committed to spend over $100B on AWS technologies over the next decade and secured up to 5 GW of Trainium capacity (Trainium2 through Trainium4).

On June 30, 2026 Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research workbench that connects Claude to more than 60 scientific databases and computation tools spanning genomics, proteomics, structural biology and cheminformatics, with a coordinator agent that delegates to specialist sub-agents and a reviewer agent that checks citations and calculations. Available in beta to Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscribers, it launched alongside an internal Anthropic drug-discovery program targeting 'neglected' diseases that traditional biopharma companies consider commercially unattractive.

By mid-August 2026, Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao was leading informal, high-level briefings with prospective investors - covering enterprise adoption, Claude Code and product roadmap rather than financial guidance - ahead of a possible public listing; Anthropic itself has not set a valuation target. Some investors, however, are separately modeling a roughly $2 trillion valuation for an IPO as early as October 2026, which would eclipse SpaceX's $1.77T June 2026 debut, on projections that annualized revenue could reach $100-120B by year-end; Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are reported to be leading the offering.

On August 13, 2026 Anthropic was reported to be in talks to acquire Decart, an Israeli AI startup that builds software to make chips run training and inference more efficiently and to develop world models, for roughly $6 billion - what would be Anthropic's largest known acquisition. Decart had raised about $450M to date, including a $300M round in May 2026 at a $4B valuation; no agreement was finalized and talks could still fall apart.

On August 10, 2026 Anthropic disclosed that an unreleased research version of Claude raised the proven lower bound on the share of Riemann zeta function zeros satisfying the Riemann Hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%, the largest single-step advance on that benchmark in 46 years, by combining recent academic papers no human researcher had yet unified. The model coordinated about 60 subagents over roughly a day and a half, running thousands of shell commands and using 31 million output tokens; Anthropic stressed the result is not a proof of the full hypothesis, has not been peer reviewed, and is not reproducible end to end since the research model itself remains unidentified and unreleased.

Anthropic shared updated figures with investors on August 17, 2026 showing annualized run-rate revenue had surpassed $65B as of late July, more than sevenfold its level at the end of 2025 (crossing $30B in April and $47B in May), alongside preliminary Q2 2026 revenue exceeding $11.5B and positive adjusted operating income for the quarter. The disclosure comes as Anthropic works with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on a possible IPO that some investors are modeling as early as October 2026.

Anthropic published wet-lab results on August 19, 2026 showing Claude models (Mythos Preview and Opus 4.8) autonomously ran an end-to-end computational protein-design pipeline that produced working de novo binders against 14 of 15 targets, with lab partners Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience independently producing and testing the designs. The campaign yielded 354 confirmed binders from 1,320 designs, with overall hit rates of 26.7% (Mythos Preview) and 22.6% (Opus 4.8), well above the 10-15% typical for human-led protein-design campaigns; Anthropic cautioned that protein binders are not drugs and are only a first step toward any therapeutic.

Anthropic agreed on August 26, 2026 to rent roughly $45 billion of AI compute from British infrastructure firm Nscale, running on Nvidia's new Vera Rubin chip platform. The capacity is expected to begin powering Anthropic's services in late 2027, marking one of the company's largest single infrastructure commitments to date alongside its existing Amazon, Google, AMD and CoreWeave deals.

Anthropic and Salesforce announced Claudeforce on August 26, 2026, an expanded partnership making Claude the default reasoning model across Agentforce, Slack and Salesforce's developer tools while launching a Salesforce-in-Claude plugin with 37 prebuilt sales skills for pipeline and CRM actions from inside Claude. Claude is also made available within Salesforce's Trust Boundary via Amazon Bedrock for regulated customers, with a broader open beta planned for September 2026.

On August 27, 2026 Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification that lets AI agents operate physical devices with programmable interfaces - microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms and similar lab and manufacturing hardware - in parallel. Development started as a collaboration with HHMI Janelia; the standard is model-agnostic, reachable through MCP, the command line or APIs, and is meant to cut hardware-integration work from weeks to hours. Anthropic is sharing an early version with science, robotics and manufacturing partners and plans to open-source MHS after the preview; early users include Genentech, Carnegie Mellon, QuEra Computing, AWS, Doosan Robotics, Tecan and Universal Robots.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic on August 28, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing it of a 'brazen campaign' of illegally torrenting, scraping and downloading copyrighted song lyrics and compositions to train Claude, and naming co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. The publishers seek up to $150,000 per infringed work plus $25,000 per instance of removed copyright-management information, with total damages potentially reaching several billion dollars; it follows a January 2026 suit from Universal Music Publishing, Concord and ABKCO over 20,000+ works, a March 2026 BMG suit, and an August 17 Round Hill Music suit, meaning all three major music publishers are now litigating against Anthropic separately from its $1.5B book-publishing settlement.

Anthropic agreed on August 31, 2026 to a six-year, $35 billion cloud computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, securing roughly 350 megawatts of capacity at Hut 8's Beacon Point data-center campus in Nueces County, Texas. Nvidia holds the underlying lease on the facility and effectively backs the arrangement, with Lambda installing Nvidia chips and reselling the compute to Anthropic - the latest in a string of major infrastructure commitments this year alongside $45B with Nscale, $10B with Volta, and its Amazon, Google, AMD, CoreWeave, TeraWulf and Riot deals.

On September 1, 2026 Anthropic announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, which stores activity data used for misuse detection in the customer's own Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage account under the customer's encryption keys. The company said it developed the product with more than 100 customers after dropping zero data retention on its most capable models, will roll it out in phases with broad availability targeted for later this fall, and will give eligible customers zero data retention on Fable 5 and Fable 5.1 until their turn comes.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and the invitation-only Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026, its most capable models yet for coding, knowledge work and long-running research. Pricing is unchanged at $10/$50 per million input/output tokens, but cache-read pricing drops 75% (from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens on Fable). Fable 5.1, generally available to all paid and API users, can now identify software vulnerabilities in source code and cuts Claude Code cybersecurity false positives by roughly 60%; Mythos 5.1, restricted to vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences researchers via trusted access programs, posts Anthropic's strongest-yet cyber capability score while still landing in the low-risk tier of its Frontier Compliance Framework.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Axios around the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill on September 2, 2026 that the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic after months of clashes over defense use of Claude, saying the company has done what officials asked and is back on the right side. Co-founder Tom Brown appeared on stage at the same gathering. The comments follow an August 27 San Francisco ruling that the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation was unlawful; a separate D.C. Circuit case remains pending, so federal and defense access is not fully restored.

Anthropic ships Claude 3.7 Sonnet - its first hybrid-reasoning model - alongside the Claude Code research preview in February 2025, then launches the Claude 4 generation (Opus 4 and Sonnet 4) in May 2025.

In September 2025 Anthropic raises a $13B Series F led by ICONIQ (co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed) at a $183B post-money valuation, funding compute and international expansion.

In March 2024 Anthropic launches the Claude 3 family - Opus, Sonnet and Haiku - establishing the tiered model structure, followed by Claude 3.5 Sonnet in June and Amazon's investment reaching $8B total in November.

Anthropic releases its first Claude models in March 2023. Later that year Amazon commits an initial $1.25B (up to $4B) to make AWS a primary cloud partner, and Google invests $500M with more committed.

Seven former OpenAI staff, led by siblings Dario Amodei (CEO) and Daniela Amodei (President), incorporate Anthropic in early 2021 as an AI-safety company structured as a public benefit corporation.