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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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