Anthropic receives US$3.5 billion in Series E financing, with a valuation of US$61.5 billion

Anthropic announced a $3.5 billion Series E financing round, with a valuation of $61.5 billion after financing. The round of funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which contributed $1 billion, further strengthened Anthropic's position as one of the world's most valuable private companies. This shows that despite the current high valuation of AI companies, investors still maintain a strong investment interest in leading AI development companies.

The financing attracted the participation of many well-known investors, including Salesforce Ventures, Cisco Investments, Fidelity Management & Research Company, etc. In a statement, Amsobik said the investment will be used to advance the development of next-generation AI systems, expand computing power, deepen research on mechanism interpretability and alignment, and accelerate international expansion.

According to insiders, Anthropic's annual revenue reached US$1 billion in December 2024, a tenfold increase year-on-year. At the beginning of 2025, the company's revenue increased by 30% again in just two months. Since the launch of the Claude chatbot in March 2023, Amsobit has gained a significant market share in the enterprise application market.

Krishna Rao, Anthropic's chief financial officer, said the investment will drive it to develop smarter and more powerful AI systems to expand human capabilities. At the same time, changes in AI companies' valuations also reflect the market's re-examination of corporate growth models. Anthropic is currently valued at 58 times its annual revenue, compared with nearly 150 times a year ago.

Meanwhile, Anthropic has also received strategic investment from Amazon and Google, with Amazon's total investment of $8 billion, becoming Anthropic's largest cloud computing and training partner. Google has pledged to invest more than $3 billion in the company.

Despite the increasing competition in the AI ​​market, Anthropic is still firmly following the B2B path and is committed to providing technical support to other companies. Its customers include global companies such as Zoom, Snowflake and Pfizer. Recently, Anthropic has also launched Claude3.7Sonnet and Claude Code, which has specially optimized programming tasks.

Although the huge financing of the AI ​​industry has made the market look forward to the future prospects, it is still important to note that these companies are generally in a loss-making state. Investors believe that these AI platforms can transform into sustainable business models in the future.