This Thursday, the Anthropic funding round captured 30 billion dollars, raising its valuation to record figures while Elon Musk criticized Claude’s ethics. The tycoon described the system as a tool that promotes social hatred, unleashing a public controversy among the most influential leaders in the current technological sector.
By having obtained the support of funds such as GIC and Coatue, this operation places the firm as a giant within the artificial intelligence ecosystem. However, Musk took advantage of the announcement to brand the firm “evil,” claiming that its architecture demonstrates contempt toward various demographic groups, thus generating an intense debate on social media platforms.
Anthropic’s financial rise challenges internal turbulence at the firm xAI
On the other hand, the company has reported annualized revenues of 14 billion dollars, which represents explosive growth for this present year. This commercial success occurs at a time when competition for talent is fierce, allowing Anthropic to consolidate its position against direct rivals who have recently faced massive leaks of highly qualified researchers.
Likewise, tools such as Claude Code already generate billions of dollars, demonstrating a monetization capacity that amazes the investors. Meanwhile, xAI suffers the loss of strategic co-founders, which suggests that Musk’s leadership faces operational challenges, hindering the pace of innovation necessary to compete against the most valuable laboratories in the entire industry.
Considering that the post-money valuation has reached 380 billion, Anthropic becomes the second most valuable company in today’s market. This milestone allows the organization to expand its global infrastructure, ensuring that its language models can process massive volumes of data, overcoming the technical limitations that previously slowed the deployment of solutions for large corporations.
Can the rivalry between Musk and Altman stop the growth of these companies?
However, the tension is not only verbal, as multiple legal lawsuits against OpenAI’s structure have been filed lately. Musk maintains that the original non-profit mission has been betrayed, while Anthropic’s progress adds pressure on corporate market control, where million-dollar contracts are disputed with the world’s leading companies in a globalized world.
On the other hand, the technological race has led to the simultaneous launch of models such as Claude Opus 4.6, seeking to overcome the logical capabilities of current systems. This advertising rivalry, which includes ads during massive events, highlights that the sector is willing to spend fortunes on marketing to dominate public perception regarding who owns the planet’s most powerful technology.
Furthermore, personal attacks between Sam Altman and the Tesla CEO have escalated, focusing on the safety of the technological products launched. By criticizing Musk’s alleged hypocrisy regarding autonomous vehicles, Altman seeks to divert attention from the ethical concerns, creating a climate of mutual distrust that deeply affects the reputation of advanced model developers in the market.
Even with the departure of key researchers, xAI attempts to maintain its relevance through strategic integration with SpaceX operations. However, analysts suggest that the flow of capital toward Anthropic could stifle smaller projects, as the concentration of financial resources in a few laboratories redefines power alliances in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Despite the cross-accusations, the massive flow of capital ensures that innovation does not stop during the coming months. The success of the Anthropic funding round underscores that investors prioritize technical performance, expecting that Claude’s maturity will define the commercial future of autonomous agents that will operate in the new highly automated digital economy.
