Anthropic Eyes US$10B Raise at US$350B Valuation, Led by GIC and Coatue

Anthropic’s Next Act

Anthropic is reportedly preparing for a new US$10 billion funding round at an implied valuation of around US$350 billion, with the raise expected to be led by GIC and Coatue. If confirmed, this would represent a significant step up from valuation levels discussed only a few months ago and highlights the continued appetite for scaled artificial intelligence platforms among large institutional investors.

The company was founded in 2021 by former researchers from OpenAI and has since emerged as one of the leading independent players in large language models. To date, Anthropic has raised close to US$27 billion across 14 funding rounds, including a landmark US$13 billion raise in September. The business focuses on developing advanced language models with a strong emphasis on AI safety and alignment.

Its flagship Claude platform delivers conversational AI tools used by enterprises, research institutions, and developers, positioning Anthropic at the centre of commercial and responsible AI adoption.

With a team of roughly 300 to 500 employees, Anthropic continues to push the frontier of artificial intelligence research while steadily scaling enterprise-grade applications. The company’s approach places a strong emphasis on responsible and ethical deployment, which has become an increasingly important consideration for large organisations adopting AI at scale.

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What’s the growth opportunity when it comes to AI agents?

The growth opportunity across AI agents is substantial, and this is one of the core value propositions for which Claude is known for its string coding mechanisms, particularly as enterprises increasingly prioritise best-in-class AI models to support complex workflows. Adoption is already well underway.

Around 57% of organisations now deploy AI agents for multi-stage processes, with 16% running cross-functional workflows that span multiple teams. Looking ahead to 2026, intent to deepen usage is clear, with 81% of organisations planning to tackle more complex use cases.

This includes 39% developing agents for multi-step processes and 29% deploying agents across cross-functional projects, highlighting how embedded AI is becoming in core operations rather than peripheral tasks.

Software development remains the leading use case. Close to 90% of organisations now use AI to assist with coding, while 86% deploy agents directly in production code.

The productivity benefits are broad-based, with organisations reporting material time savings across planning and ideation at 58%, code generation at 59%, documentation at 59%, and code review and testing at 59%.

From our perspective, this level of consistency across the development lifecycle underscores why AI agents are moving from experimentation to mission-critical tools.

A practical example of this value in action can be seen at Thomson Reuters, which uses Claude from Anthropic to power its CoCounsel AI legal platform. Tasks that once required lawyers to spend hours manually searching through documents can now be completed in minutes, with access to more than 150 years of case law and insights from around 3,000 domain experts.