Anthropic’s $13B Series F Makes AI the Hottest Sovereign Wealth Fund in Town

Anthropic just raised a casual $13 billion Series F at a $183 billion valuation, officially crossing into the territory where your average sovereign nation starts looking at them with envy. Congratulations, Claude—you’re now worth more than Hungary, the GDP of Morocco, and approximately 183 billion packs of ramen.

The round was led by ICONIQ, with Fidelity and Lightspeed tagging along like venture capital remoras on a very large, very shiny AI shark. Also lurking in the tank: BlackRock, Blackstone, Qatar, Ontario Teachers, Jane Street, and pretty much everyone else with a billion or two lying around in their sofa cushions. The cap table looks less like a startup and more like the G20 summit with better catering.

“Exponential” Growth, Because of Course

Anthropic’s CFO, Krishna Rao, gave the usual pep talk about “mission-critical work” and “exponential growth.” Which is finance-speak for: we printed money faster than the Fed could blink. The company hit a $1 billion revenue run rate at the start of 2025 and ballooned to $5 billion by August. That’s right—five-X in eight months. Forget AI safety; someone please regulate this CAGR before it breaks math.

Meanwhile, 300,000 businesses are now hooked on Claude like tech bros on cold brew. The number of “large accounts” (aka Fortune 500s with checkbooks bigger than small countries) grew 7x in a year. Translation: if you’re not paying Anthropic six figures annually yet, you’re probably just the intern trying to expense ChatGPT Plus on a corporate card.

Claude Code: The GitHub Copilot But Make It Anthropic

Apparently, developers have decided Claude Code is their new tool of choice, already bringing in $500 million run-rate revenue in just three months. For perspective: that’s more than most SaaS startups will ever see—combined. Somewhere, GitHub Copilot is nervously chain-smoking in the corner, whispering “I was here first.”

And then there are the Pro and Max plans for regular people, who for just a low monthly fee can pretend their shopping lists and fantasy football trades are “mission critical.”

Investors Say the Darndest Things

ICONIQ partner Divesh Makan delivered a quote so dripping with AI-era earnestness it could’ve been generated by Claude itself: “Claude is reliable, built on a trustworthy foundation, and guided by leaders focused on the long term.” Which is exactly the kind of thing you say when you’ve just written a $13 billion check and are praying this isn’t WeWork with a chatbot.

The Fine Print: What $13B Buys You

So what’s Anthropic doing with this mountain of cash? Expanding internationally, hiring more PhDs to “interpret” why Claude occasionally hallucinates directions to Narnia, and—most importantly—convincing enterprises that AI safety is a feature, not a bug.

But let’s be real: $13 billion means Claude can now afford an entire personal island, 10,000 GPUs shaped like gold bricks, and maybe even a functioning HR department.

SiliconSnark Verdict: Anthropic has officially become the world’s most overachieving grad student project, now valued higher than Disney, Intel, and some actual oil companies. If you squint, this is less “Series F” and more “sovereign wealth fund cosplay.” And yet, we’ll all keep paying for Claude Pro because who else is going to rewrite our Slack updates into “professional but breezy” tone?