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⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡
- 💰🚀 Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B
- 🎵🤖 Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
- 🔴⚠️ OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
- 🤖💸 AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
- 🌌🚀 xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands
- 💻🔧 A new version of OpenAI's Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip
- 🌙🚀 Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.
- 👔🤖 IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI
- 🏭🤖 Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on 'agentic' autopilot
Anthropic secures massive $30B funding round, doubling valuation to $380B
Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B
AI powerhouse Anthropic has successfully closed a massive $30 billion Series G funding round, marking one of the largest venture capital raises in the artificial intelligence sector to date. The company announced on Thursday that its valuation has skyrocketed to $380 billion, more than doubling from its previous Series F valuation of $183 billion.
The unprecedented funding round was spearheaded by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and prominent investment management firm Coatue Management. The round attracted an impressive consortium of co-leaders, including D.E. Shaw Ventures, billionaire Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, and Abu Dhabi's state-backed MGX fund, demonstrating strong international confidence in Anthropic's AI capabilities.
Additional heavyweight investors participated in the round, including venture capital giants Accel and General Catalyst, quantitative trading firm Jane Street, and the Qatar Investment Authority. This diverse mix of institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity firms highlights the global appetite for cutting-edge AI technology investments.
The timing of this funding round is particularly significant as Anthropic intensifies its competition with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. The two companies are locked in a fierce battle for market dominance in the rapidly evolving generative AI landscape. OpenAI has recently signaled its own ambitious fundraising plans, reportedly seeking to raise an additional $100 billion that could potentially value the company at approximately $830 billion.
Krishna Rao, Anthropic's Chief Financial Officer, emphasized the strong market demand driving this investment. "Whether it is entrepreneurs, startups, or the world's largest enterprises, the message from our customers is the same: Claude is increasingly becoming more critical to how businesses work," Rao stated in the company's press release.
Claude, Anthropic's flagship AI assistant, has been gaining significant traction among enterprise customers who value its focus on safety and reliability. The platform has positioned itself as a more responsible alternative to other AI systems, emphasizing constitutional AI principles and robust safety measures that appeal to risk-conscious businesses.
The massive capital injection will enable Anthropic to accelerate development of enterprise-grade AI products and models that have become essential tools for businesses across various industries. The funding will likely support expanded computing infrastructure, talent acquisition, and research and development initiatives as the company scales its operations to meet growing demand.
This funding round reflects the broader trend of massive investments flowing into the AI sector as companies race to develop and deploy increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence systems. The competition between major AI players is driving unprecedented valuations and funding amounts, with investors betting heavily on the transformative potential of these technologies.
As Anthropic continues to challenge OpenAI's market position, this substantial war chest positions the company to make significant investments in research, infrastructure, and talent acquisition. The funding will be crucial as the company works to maintain its competitive edge in an increasingly crowded and rapidly evolving AI marketplace, where technological advancement and market positioning can shift dramatically within months.
🔍 Which AI Dilemma Should We Tackle First?
- ⚠️ 1. Speed vs. Understanding The rapid pace of AI development is outpacing our ability to comprehend or regulate it.
- 🧠 2. Lack of Alignment AI systems don’t necessarily optimize for what’s good for humans—even when they seem to.
- 🏢 3. Power Concentration AI is consolidating power into the hands of a few tech giants and governments.
- 🤖 4. Automation Without Purpose AI is replacing jobs faster than society is creating meaningful alternatives.
- 🛑 5. Loss of Human Agency We risk becoming passive consumers of AI decisions, losing creativity and independent thinking.
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Spotify's top developers rely entirely on AI for coding
Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI
Spotify revealed during its Q4 earnings call that its best developers haven't written code since December, relying entirely on AI. Co-CEO Gustav Söderström highlighted their internal "Honk" system, which uses Claude Code for real-time deployment.
Engineers can now fix bugs or add features via Slack on mobile devices, with AI completing the work and delivering new app versions before they reach the office. This system helped Spotify ship over 50 new features in 2025, including AI-powered playlists and audiobook features.
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⚡ Trends for the Future
Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on 'agentic' autopilot
Didero raises $30M to automate complex manufacturing procurement with AI.
Tim Spencer discovered the painful complexities of manufacturing procurement while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia during the pandemic. With thousands of suppliers and distribution across dozens of countries, his team was overwhelmed by manual tasks including sourcing suppliers, negotiating pricing, tracking orders, and managing payments.
After selling Markai in 2023, Spencer recognized that generative AI could revolutionize procurement processes. He launched Didero with Lorenz Pallhuber, a McKinsey procurement veteran, and Tom Petit, former technical co-founder of Landis.
Didero just secured a $30 million Series A round co-led by Chemistry and Headline, with participation from Microsoft's M12 venture fund. The company's mission is to automate the complexities of global procurement through AI-powered solutions.
"Global trade runs on natural language communication," Spencer explained, referring to emails, WeChat messages, phone calls, purchase orders, and packing lists. Previously, humans had to manually track these fragmented communications and update record systems. Didero's platform can ingest this communication and put significant portions of the procurement workflow on autopilot.
The company functions as an agentic AI layer that sits atop existing ERP systems, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes necessary updates and tasks. Spencer's ambitious goal is to enable the entire process "from 'I need a good' to payment without having to lift a finger."
Unlike competitors such as Levelpath, Zip, or Oro Labs that focus on corporate purchasing, Didero specifically targets supply chain procurement for manufacturers and distributors sourcing raw materials and production inputs.
While smaller competitors like Cavela and Pietra exist, Spencer notes they primarily serve small-to-medium companies and don't handle the complete procurement process from initial quote to final payment. Didero has dozens of customers, including Footprint, a sustainable plant-based packaging provider.
⚡ Let’s Make AI Actually Useful:
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• Automate a painful workflow?
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Tell us what you’d want AI to handle — or where you feel stuck.
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Alec Radford is a research scientist at OpenAI who has been instrumental in developing breakthrough AI models, including GPT-2, CLIP (which connects vision and language), and contributed to GPT-3's development. His pioneering work on unsupervised learning and multi-modal AI systems has demonstrated how large-scale models can learn powerful representations without explicit supervision, and he continues to advocate for developing AI systems that can understand and generate content across different modalities while becoming more useful and accessible.
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