"AI New Nobility" Anthropic's latest financing is booming: annual revenue and valuation have doubled, and venture capital is flocking in.

According to informed sources, it has been revealed that in the latest round of financing, Anthropic PBC has received at least $1 billion in investment from institutions such as Coatue Management, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), and Iconiq Capital. This indicates that investors are setting off a wave of enthusiasm driven by the soaring revenue of artificial intelligence start-up companies. According to informed sources, Anthropic's Revenue Run Rate (RRR) has more than doubled since last summer, and it is expected to exceed $9 billion by the end of 2025. The company's Revenue Run Rate, a metric that predicts annual revenue based on short-term forecasts, was $4 billion in July last year. Multiple informed sources revealed that the subscription for this transaction has been enthusiastic, and supporters have pledged to invest more than the company's previous target of $10 billion raised from investment firms. Some informed sources also indicated that with the $15 billion previously committed by NVIDIA Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, the size of this financing round is likely to easily exceed $20 billion. The list of investors for this round of financing has started to take shape: According to informed sources, lead investors Coatue Management and GIC are expected to each invest around $1.5 billion. Iconiq Capital is also expected to be a major investor, planning to invest $1 billion or more. Iconiq led the previous round of financing for Anthropic in September last year, when the valuation was approximately half of its potential new valuation. Informed sources revealed that Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and Sequoia Capital are also expected to participate in this round of financing. Anthropic's artificial intelligence tool, Claude, has become the preferred tool for businesses and developers to write code and perform other tasks. The start-up announced that the new version Claude Sonnet 4.5 released in September is better at executing commands and can autonomously code continuously for up to 30 hours. The service can also utilize a user's computer to perform operations, which is an improvement on a feature introduced by Anthropic a year ago to push artificial intelligence towards a more autonomous direction. Microsoft Corporation (MSFT.US) and NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA.US) have previously expressed significant investments in Anthropic. These strategic investments by the two large tech companies in Anthropic will further intensify the increasingly common collaboration between artificial intelligence developers and cloud computing or chip suppliers. Some potential investors have expressed dissatisfaction with these collaborations. Industry observers and rating agencies are closely monitoring the rise of the so-called "artificial intelligence trading cycle," in which suppliers are also investors in the company. In addition to leveraging Microsoft Corporation and NVIDIA Corporation's investments in Anthropic, Anthropic itself is a customer of these two companies. Mergers and acquisitions activities in the artificial intelligence industry indicate that the costs of developing and supporting artificial intelligence tools are skyrocketing. According to statistics, spending on data centers alone could exceed $30 trillion over the next five years. Anthropic plans to make significant investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and has committed to invest $50 billion in building data centers in the United States.