Anthropic’s Meteoric Rise—and the Crypto Collapse That Funde
Deepa Rathi
Updated at: 3 hours ago
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Forget an Apple acquisition: Anthropic just raised $13 billion at a $183B valuation, making it the 4th most valuable private company on earth 😳
That’s 3x higher than just 18 months ago.
And puts the AI startup ahead of Stripe, Databricks, and Revolut.
Here’s the current leaderboard:
1️⃣ SpaceX - $400B
2️⃣ ByteDance - $330B
3️⃣ OpenAI - $300B
4️⃣ Anthropic - $183B
5️⃣ xAI - $113B
Anthropic’s growth has been nothing short of amazing:
→ Revenue run-rate jumped from $1B to $5B in 8 months.
→ Claude Code alone is pulling $500 million ARR.
→ 300,000 business customers across finance, health, and enterprise IT.
But here comes the wild part.
FTX once bought 8% of Anthropic for $500M.
It sold during bankruptcy for $884M.
That same stake is now worth a whopping $14.6B 🤯
Turns out, the biggest collapse in crypto history accidentally backed one of AI’s biggest winners.
Fate indeed does have a wicked sense of humor, or how else would you explain FTX backing a $183B AI giant?
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