OpenAI's $1.1 Billion Deal, Anthropic Soars Past $180B, Oxford Embraces ChatGPT

Anthropic has closed a $13 billion Series F that values the generative-AI maker at $183 billion. The company had aimed for $5 billion but investor demand swelled to as much as $25 billion.

New investor Iconiq co-led the round with Fidelity and Lightspeed, joined by Qatar Investment Authority and a roster of crossover funds. The financing nearly triples Anthropic’s March valuation of $61.5 billion and consists solely of primary capital.

Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate now tops $5 billion, up from $1 billion at the start of the year, supported by 300,000 business customers and a $500 million run-rate from its Claude Code tool. The $183 billion price tag makes Anthropic the fourth most valuable private company worldwide, underscoring the soaring capital requirements and investor fervor in generative AI.

OpenAI is acquiring product testing startup Statsig in an all-stock deal valued at $1.1 billion. Statsig founder and CEO Vijaye Raji becomes OpenAI’s CTO of Applications.

Raji will report to newly hired Applications chief Fidji Simo and oversee product engineering for ChatGPT, Codex, and future offerings. OpenAI says Statsig’s experimentation platform will speed product development, and the Seattle team will remain independent while joining OpenAI after regulatory review.

The acquisition lands alongside leadership shifts that move Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil to head the new OpenAI for Science group and promote engineering chief Srinivas Narayanan to CTO of B2B Applications. OpenAI states these changes tighten its focus on the Applications business and accelerate delivery of AI products.

And it’s already happening. Just look at fast food. Miso Robotics is already delivering an AI-powered fry-cooking robot called Flippy that can cook perfectly and never calls in sick.

As restaurants grapple with 144% labor turnover rates and $20/hour minimum wages, it’s no surprise brands like White Castle are turning to Miso. Now, after selling out the first run of its first fully commercial robot in one week, Miso’s scaling production to 100,000+ US fast food locations in need.

In fact, with its US-based manufacturing ramping up now, Miso now has partnerships with NVIDIA and Uber AI to refine its robots and AI. And you can join as an investor before these pivotal next steps (and unlock up to 8% bonus shares*).

China’s top economic planner vows to prevent disorderly competition in the booming AI sector, instructing provinces to develop complementary strengths instead of duplicating investments. The National Development and Reform Commission says AI growth must align with each region’s resources and industrial base.

The stance mirrors President Xi’s recent warning against excessive local AI spending and draws lessons from overcapacity in electric vehicles. Heavy datacenter buildouts are highlighted as a risk, and chipmaker Cambricon’s shares drop up to 11% after cautioning on its month-long surge.

Beijing signals a calibrated approach—steering capital, talent, and infrastructure while still calling AI a critical economic pillar and arena of rivalry with the US. The NDRC pledges stronger national planning and new backing for private “dark horse” firms like DeepSeek under tighter oversight.

Runway is expanding beyond entertainment and courting robotics and autonomous vehicle firms with its video-based world models. It will fine-tune its existing Gen-4 and Aleph models and is building a dedicated robotics team instead of creating separate model lines.

Robotics and self-driving companies already use Runway’s simulations to test specific maneuvers without the cost and delays of real-world trials. Germanidis says the models let teams alter one variable while keeping the environment unchanged, a task that is prohibitively difficult in physical settings.

Broadening into robotics gives Runway’s $3 billion, $500 million-funded company a fresh revenue channel beyond entertainment. It also puts Runway in the same arena as Nvidia, which just updated its Cosmos world models for robot training.

Oxford University tells students they may use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Bing Chat, and Google Bard to support their studies. The university states that these tools cannot replace critical thinking or the development of evidence-based arguments.

The guidance instructs students to verify AI outputs for accuracy and treat them as one resource among many. It also says departments and colleges can impose additional rules on specific assignments, and students must follow directions from tutors and supervisors.

The document frames AI as a supplemental aid that is acceptable only with continuous human appraisal. This stance upholds academic integrity while acknowledging the growing role of generative tools in education.