Anthropic signs term sheet for $10 billion funding round at $350 billion valuation

Funding and Valuation - Anthropic has signed a term sheet for a $10 billion funding round at a $350 billion valuation [1] - Coatue and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC are leading the financing [1] Company Background - Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives, including CEO Dario Amodei [2] - The company is known for developing a family of large language models called Claude [2] - Amazon has invested billions into Anthropic, while Microsoft and Nvidia announced plans to invest up to $5 billion and $10 billion, respectively [2] Competitive Landscape - Anthropic is competing with companies like Google and OpenAI, which has a valuation of $500 billion [3] - The company released three new models — Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, and Claude Opus 4.5 — late last year [3]