Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.

Seems pretty clear Claude is winning this AI race

Anthropic’s valuation now hovers at around $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, its CEO Kelly Rodriques told Business Insider. OpenAI’s valuation on the platform is $880 billion, a slight uptick from its March funding round.

Since Anthropic and OpenAI are not yet public companies, the vast majority of investors are forced to buy via secondary markets, with existing stock in the companies sold by current or former employees or early investors. Neither company responded to a request for comment.

One Anthropic shareholder recently offered to unload shares at a $1.15 trillion valuation, according to Ken Sawyer, cofounder and managing partner at Saints Capital, a venture secondary firm.

A “very well known growth fund” offered to buy Anthropic shares at a $1.05 trillion valuation, Jesse Leimgruber, founder of OpenHome, posted on X this week.

“Absolutely wild,” he said.

Some interested buyers have gotten more creative, offering to sell their home in exchange for Anthropic shares at a valuation above $800 billion.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    OpenAI is failing to monetize their model, is falling behind on Claude on benchmarks, can’t compete with Google on pricing/costs, is struggling to retain talent, and people don’t trust Sam Altman.

    Unless something major changes, it really seems like we’ve passed the peak of OpenAI’s trajectory and it’ll be mostly downhill from here.