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 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 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.

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.