VCs are flooding Anthropic with offers to invest at up to an $800 billion valuation

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Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Anthropic has recently received multiple offers from VCs to invest at valuations as high as $800 billion. Buzzy startups frequently field preemptive offers from investors only to rebuff them. Still, the valuations indicate the feverish demand for Anthropic shares that has overtaken Silicon Valley. AI-generated summary Summaries are generated by an AI model trained on Business Insider's articles. AI may make mistakes or provide inaccurate/incomplete information. We're unable to load that answer right now. Please try again. What drives demand for Anthropic shares? What is Anthropic's Claude code? How are AI startups influencing Silicon Valley? How does Anthropic compare to OpenAI? What role do VCs play in tech valuations? Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the startup behind Claude at as much as $800 billion in recent weeks, more than double its current valuation, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Loading audio narration... Buzzy startups frequently field preemptive offers from investors only to rebuff them.Still, the valuations VCs are floating indicate the feverish demand that has overtaken Silicon Valley for a stake in Anthropic as the company prepares for a possible IPO later this year. A spokesperson for Anthropic declined to comment.Anthropic closed a funding round in February led by GIC and Coatue that valued the company at $380 billion. That is less than half the $852 billion valuation OpenAI achieved in the funding round it closed last month. Anthropic is valued at $688 billion on Caplight, a secondary exchange where investors can trade shares of privately held companies. That is up 75% in three months.Investors and founders have been wowed by Anthropic's torrid growth and momentum around AI-powered coding assistant Claude code. "They're crushing it," Jared Quincy Davis, founder and CEO of Mithril, an AI cloud platform, said about Anthropic last week at HumanX, an AI conference.Anthropic's run-rate revenue, the revenue a company expects to collect over a year, has soared to $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of last year, the company announced last week. It also added that over 1,000 business customers are spending more than $1 million a year, a figure that has doubled in less than two months. Last week, Anthropic announced its latest model, Mythos, which it said is so powerful it cannot yet be unleashed upon the general public because of the risk of cyber attacks."The Mythos model is a huge deal, Tomasz Tunguz, founder and general partner of Theory Ventures, said last week at HumanX. "There's a tremendous amount of excitement."