Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the AI lab at $965 billion post-money, in one of the largest private funding rounds in tech history.Why it matters: With the round, Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI, which was most recently valued at $730 billion.Driving the news: The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital.The company said the funding will support safety and interpretability research, expand compute capacity and scale Claude product...