AI Names · Frontier labs & chatbots
Anthropic
Private
Anthropic makes Claude, the other frontier chatbot that serious buyers actually put in front of employees. The San Francisco lab is now the most valuable private AI company on the last reported print.
- Site
- anthropic.com
- Product
- Claude
- Who
- Dario Amodei, CEO
- Last reported post-money
- $965B
- As of
- May 2026
- Round
- Series H, $65B financing.
In the Daily
· Closing Time
Closing Time: The chatbot opened a storefrontChatGPT started selling ads at scale, Nvidia bought the custom-chip hallway, the Pentagon logged in, and the financial-stability watchdog named the next crash risk.
· Morning Brief
The grid hired a campaignA PAC walked into the substation. Overnight, the software bill started waiting until the agent finishes.
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Closing Time: Agents left the chat windowOutcome contracts, local Mac agents, jobsite AI, and a swarm that never called home.
· Morning Brief
The factories crowded the TreasuryHyperscalers are borrowing like the returns are already here. The town halls are not so sure.
· Closing Time
Closing Time: Alignment left the whiteboardAnthropic’s automated safety agents, Xpeng’s robot raise, OpenAI’s Asia hire, and Palo Alto’s hunt for Datadog and Okta.
· Morning Brief
OpenAI just pulled the plug on Cursor· Morning Brief
A judge put the Anthropic blacklist on ice· Closing Time
Closing Time: The model ran on Chinese chipsZ.ai served GLM-5.3-Flash on home-grown silicon. Labs asked for a cyber shield. Indiana broke ground on HBM packaging.
· Morning Brief
Nvidia just printed the quarter. Now it wants the model store.AWS adds two million GPUs. SoftBank shops 1X. Instinct hits $2.5 billion.
· Closing Time
Anthropic bought the power. Meta bought the peace.460 megawatts of Vera Rubin in West Virginia. Plus MiniMax hits $800 million ARR.
· Morning Brief
DeepSeek is cashing checks. Moonshot wants a Western till.Kimi K3 on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Plus India’s 9,000 Vera Rubin order.
· Closing Time
Closing Time: Anthropic named a market bigger than the economyOpenAI says Jalapeño beat Nvidia. ClickHouse hits $350 million ARR.
· Morning Brief
Sol just got cheaper. The IPO just got a warning label.Nvidia buys into Cloverleaf’s power sites, Apple cuts Siri and Vision Pro roles, and Waymo ships a robotaxi chip.
· Morning Brief
Nvidia writes a $6 billion Poolside check. Samsung returns up to $80 billion.Broadcom is hunting more than $60 billion of chip debt for Anthropic, and Chinese models just swept OpenRouter.
· Morning Brief
Nvidia readies a China LPU. Alibaba spends $10 billion.Nvidia is preparing an export-compliant inference chip for China as Alibaba’s AI buildout cuts profit 75 percent.
· Morning Brief
OpenAI put 2027 on the IPO. Cognition says it is not for sale.Friar told staff listing is another fundraise. Math broke, and Prima is weeks from sale.