Anthropic

Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F round led by ICONIQ Growth, co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed, at a $183 billion post-money valuation — one of the largest private funding rounds in history.

Claude 4 Opus became Anthropic's most capable model for complex, long-horizon coding and agent tasks. Claude Sonnet 4 provided a strong balance of intelligence and speed for everyday use.

Anthropic announced the Claude Partner Network committing $100 million to support system integrators and consultants helping enterprises deploy Claude at scale.

Anthropic raised $3.5 billion in a Series E round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduced extended thinking mode, enabling the model to reason step-by-step before answering, dramatically improving performance on coding and STEM tasks.

Amazon committed up to $4 billion in Anthropic, making it Anthropic's primary cloud and training partner. Anthropic workloads run on AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips.

Claude 3.5 Haiku, Anthropic's fastest and most compact model, was released matching Claude 3 Opus performance at a fraction of the cost.

Accenture and Anthropic launched the Accenture Anthropic Business Group, training ~30,000 Accenture professionals on Claude to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

Anthropic released its model specification publicly, detailing the values, behaviors, and priorities embedded in Claude — a major step toward transparent AI alignment.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet became the most intelligent model Anthropic had released, outperforming Claude 3 Opus at faster speed and lower cost. Introduced the computer use capability in beta.