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Anthropic nears deal to raise funding at $170B valuation
- rany_ 1y agohttp://archive.today/4V4NX http://archive.today/4V4NX
- paxys 1y agoNot surprising, but damn. $60B to $170B in ~5 months?
- aurareturn 1y agohttps://openrouter.ai/rankings https://openrouter.ai/rankings They've been dominant. ChatGPT is still the better consumer AI tool but Anthropic models have been better for professionals. When I use Github Copilot agent mode, Sonnet 4 is worlds better than GPT 4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
- sigmoid10 1y agoThey are absolutely not dominant. OpenRouter only captures a tiny fraction of the market. I think around 2-3 million users. But Claude has something like 10-30 million active users according to most estimates. And ChatGPT is already north of 300-400 million active users. Valuations in this sector have nothing to do with facts anymore, because otherwise noone would give Anthropic a valuation in the same order of magnitude as OpenAI for a tiny fraction of the user base while all objective benchmarks put the top models so close together. This is pure insanity riding on a vague hope that one of those companies will capture AGI while the others drop out.
- aurareturn 1y agoOpenRouter only captures a tiny fraction of the market. I think around 2-3 million users. But Claude has something like 10-30 million active users according to most estimates. And ChatGPT is already north of 300-400 million active users In case it wasn't obvious, I implied the same thing. Anthropic models are more popular on OpenRouter, which I take it as it's more preferred for developers and their apps. However, ChatGPT is still better.
- sigmoid10 1y agoThis implies that all (or at least most) developers use openrouter, which is a very bold and unlikely statement given the above numbers.
- aurareturn 1y agoNope. I did not imply that. Not sure how you're getting so many assumptions wrong. I'm using OpenRouter as a proxy for how developers are seeing models.
- sigmoid10 1y agoAnd I'm saying that's not a valid proxy in any meaningful way - for developers or anyone else. Not sure how you're not getting that given the available numbers.
- kashunstva 1y agoCongratulations. I suppose. It is quite an accomplishment; but as a (former) paid subscriber, my main wish is that they use their free-flowing tap of cash to provide actual human support for customers, in lieu of the current “Here, fill out this Google form and wait >100 days to not hear from us.”
- supportengineer 1y agoWill we see another article about the top layers taking everything and marking everyone else's equity as zero? I am curious what kind of red or green flags you can look for, in a startup, to make sure the founders won't screw you with your equity.