Dissecting Anthropic's $965 Billion Valuation Growth
May 29, 2026
Summary
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in valuation after a $65B raise, launching Claude Opus 4.8 with enhanced agent capabilities. The episode covers Shift’s free cleaning service for robot training data and Boston Children’s using AI to diagnose rare diseases. It also details Grok’s $650M raise for an inference cloud and Asana’s $75M acquisition of Stack AI to bolster its work management platform.
Topics discussed
Intro: Anthropic valuation, Shift cleanings, and AI news roundup
Host's vibe-coded project AIChatDaily.com hits 65k impressions
Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI
Claude Opus 4.8 release, browser agents, and parallel sub-agents
Shift offers free home cleanings for robot training footage
Boston Children's uses OpenAI to diagnose 40+ rare diseases
Grok raises $650M after NVIDIA licensing deal for inference cloud
Asana acquires no-code agent builder Stack AI for $75 million
Outro: Request for podcast reviews and AIbox.ai plug
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