估值飙至3500亿美元！Anthropic推50亿天量员工套现计划，AI人才战白热化

Core Insights - Anthropic, an AI startup, is offering current and former employees the opportunity to sell company shares, valuing the company at approximately $350 billion [1] - The company has prepared $5 billion to $6 billion for this share sale, depending on the number of eligible employees who choose to sell [1] - Anthropic's latest funding round earlier this month resulted in a post-money valuation of $380 billion [1] Group 1 - The share sale will be conducted by external investors, not by Anthropic itself, and is open to employees who have worked at the company for at least 12 months [1] - Secondary share sales are becoming increasingly common for startups, allowing employees to benefit from company valuation growth even before an acquisition or IPO [1] - This strategy is crucial in the competitive AI talent market, especially as many large startups opt to extend their privatization period [1] Group 2 - Competitors like Stripe Inc. and SpaceX also allow employees to sell shares, while Anthropic's main competitor, OpenAI, regularly conducts share sales, including a $6.6 billion secondary share transaction last year at a $500 billion valuation [2] - Recent actions by Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX indicate preparations for potential future IPOs [2] - Anthropic has released a new tool that significantly reduces the maintenance and analysis costs of COBOL systems, which are critical to IBM's enterprise services [2] - Dario Amodei, head of Anthropic, predicts that AI is on the brink of "exponential growth," with revenue increasing at a rate of tenfold [2]