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Startup News: 2 AI competitors make major achievements

By Chris Cannon
Private Company News

Artificial intelligence continues to make headlines, with two industry leaders making landmark moves that underscore the sector’s rapid evolution.

Anthropic achieves a $183 billion valuation

In the first week of September, Anthropic announced that it had secured a massive $13 billion in a Series F funding round, propelling its post-money valuation to $183 billion. This latest funding round and valuation is the highest the San Francisco-based company has received to date.1

Founded in 2021, Anthropic has been a leader in AI research and innovation. Anthropic’s flagship product, Claude, is an AI assistant known for its intelligence, reasoning, writing and coding.

The news of the staggering funding round comes just after the private company’s announcement of its Claude Opus 4.1 release. According to the company, this latest release improves development efficiencies, and has been cited by GitHub, Rakutan Group and Windsurf as providing notable performance gains within their tech infrastructure.2

This latest funding round has the potential to accelerate Anthropic’s innovation trajectory. In a company statement, Anthropic’s CFO Krishna Rao indicated, “We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base. This financing demonstrates investors’ extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fueling our unprecedented growth.”

Anthropic’s Forge Price™ is $162.15 as of September 4, 2025, which implies a valuation of $177.8 billion. The AI startup’s notable investors include ICONIQ, BlackRock, Coatue Management and Amazon.

Anthropic was one of Forge’s listed companies with the highest investor demand in the first quarter of 2025.3

OpenAI acquires Statsig

OpenAI, one of Anthropic’s closest competitors made a bold move last week. The San Francisco-based startup announced its acquisition of experimentation platform Statsig in a deal valued at $1.1 billion in stock. As part of the acquisition, Statsig’s CEO Vijaye Raji will join OpenAI as its new CTO of applications.4

According to OpenAI, bringing Statsig’s platform in-house will strengthen the firm’s ability to accelerate experimentation, optimize its products and build greater satisfaction among the businesses and people the private company serves.

Founded in 2015, OpenAI was one of the first to introduce to the world an AI assistant dubbed Chat-GPT. The company has expanded into products that include models that help businesses and individuals with coding and problem-solving among other tasks.

The news of this latest acquisition comes after the U.S. government approved OpenAI’s Chat-GPT enterprise product for use among its workforces. The approval was made along with Anthropic and Google’s Gemini, and could potentially lead to lucrative government contracts in the future.

OpenAI’s Forge Price™ is $469.47 as of September 4, 2025, implying a valuation of $324.62 billion. The firm’s notable investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and Microsoft.

OpenAI made Forge’s list of companies with the highest investor demand in the first two consecutive quarters of 2025.5

The AI race accelerates

With Anthropic’s valuation soaring to $183 billion, and OpenAI’s acquisition of Statsig, the AI industry appears to be entering a new phase defined by scale, speed and commercialization. With capital and talent concentrating around these companies, one can expect the enterprise adoption of AI—will only deepen.

1 Anthropic, 09/02/2025

2 Anthropic Opus 4.1, 08/05/2025

3 Forge Global, 04/01/2025

4 OpenAI, 09/02/2025

5 Forge Global, 06/23/2025

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Chris Cannon develops lifecycle programs that engage Forge’s existing client base. Prior to joining Forge, he led audience engagement programs and newsletter operations at Investopedia, the global financial and investing media company. Chris received his MBA from East Carolina University and a BA in History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Read more from Chris.

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