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Anthropic raises $65 billion and launches Claude Opus 4.8 with multiagent workflows
Anthropic closed a Series H funding round of $65 billion with a post-money valuation of $965 billion, led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia. The company simultaneously launched Claude Opus 4.8 with improved judgment and honesty, along with Dynamic Workflows enabling orchestration of hundreds of parallel subagents.
WHY IT MATTERS
This makes Anthropic one of the most valuable AI companies ever, and Opus 4.8 signals that the Claude family is keeping pace with competitors like GPT-5.5. The multiagent workflow represents a step toward more complex, autonomous AI systems.
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