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Anthropic raises 13 billion dollars at a 183-billion-dollar valuation and the funding-versus-revenue debate intensifies
Series F led by ICONIQ Capital with sovereign-fund participation. The valuation is roughly triple the prior round, nine months earlier. The annualised revenue figure that justified it was the more closely scrutinised data point.
DeepSeek's R1 lands on the open web and the frontier-AI cost curve flinches
A Chinese lab few in the West had been watching closely shipped a reasoning model competitive with OpenAI's o1 and a paper claiming it had been trained for under six million dollars. The market reaction was less about the model and more about what the model implied.
OpenAI launches a 200-dollar-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier and pricing for premium AI catches up to enterprise software
Unlimited o1-pro, advanced voice, the full Sora rollout. The number was the news. Nine months later it had stopped looking high and started looking ordinary.
OpenAI's board fires Sam Altman, the staff threaten to follow him to Microsoft, and five days later he is back
Five days, two boards, one near-walkout of seven hundred engineers, and a governance structure that did not survive the episode it had been designed for.
Amazon commits up to four billion dollars to Anthropic and the cloud-AI map redraws itself
AWS becomes Anthropic's primary cloud and Trainium becomes its training-chip path. The deal is not equity in the strict sense, but in everything that matters strategically.
Google's Bard demo gets a single fact wrong, and Alphabet's market cap drops by 100 billion dollars
A scripted promotional video for Google's chat-AI product showed the model attributing a James Webb space-telescope first to the wrong instrument. By the time the trading day in New York closed, the company had lost roughly the GDP of Hungary.