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Anthropic in talks for $950B valuation, on pace to overtake OpenAI

Bloomberg reports Anthropic is negotiating a $30–50 billion round that could value it at up to $950 billion. A deal would dethrone OpenAI's March valuation of $852 billion, making Anthropic the world's most valuable private AI company. The move converges with Google I/O on May 19 and NVIDIA earnings on May 20.

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