Anthropic2026-05-18
Anthropic eyes $900B valuation, $30B raise; ARR triples to $30B+ as PwC standardizes on Claude

AI Analysis
Anthropic is in early talks to raise $30B at a $900B+ valuation, eclipsing OpenAI's $852B mark. ARR has surged from ~$9B at end-2025 to over $30B (one Tavily source pegs the trajectory at $87M → $40B in three years), and PwC is deploying Claude across its Office of the CFO business unit. Claude also expanded to Small Business (15 prebuilt agentic workflows) and Legal, with API limits doubled for Claude Code and raised for Opus.