Anthropic Closes $30B Series G at $380B valuation, revenue hits $14B Anthropic completed a $30B funding round led by GIC and Coatue, valuing the Claude maker at $380B post-money. D.E. Shaw, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX co-led, with participation from Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia, Microsoft, and dozens more. Annualized revenue hit $14B, growing 10x annually for three consecutive years. Anthropic says it’ll cut cash burn to a third of revenue in 2026 and reach break-even by 2028, two years ahead of OpenAI. Both companies are widely expected to pursue IPOs in late 2026. ( source ) OpenAI Launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on Cerebras chips, its first non-Nvidia hardware OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a lightweight coding model running on Cerebras’ wafer-scale processors. It generates code 15x faster at over 1,000 tokens/second. The tradeoff: it scores 58.4% vs 77.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, but the speed lets developers interrupt and redirect tasks in real time. This is OpenAI’s first production use of non-Nvidia inference hardware, following a $10B multi-year Cerebras deal announced in January. Available now as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users. ( source ) Google Gemini 3 Deep Think upgrade tops ARC-AGI-2 at 84.6% and Codeforces at 3,455 Elo Google DeepMind upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think, its reasoning mode. The numbers: 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 (vs Claude Opus 4.6’s 68.8%), 48.4% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 3,455 Elo on Codeforces (vs 2,352 for Opus 4.6). It also got gold-medal results at the 2025 Physics and Chemistry Olympiads. Deep Think is available to AI Ultra subscribers and, for the first time, through the Gemini API for select researchers and enterprises. Mathematicians at Rutgers used it to catch a logical flaw that human peer review missed. ( source ) MiniMax Releases open M2.5 model, claims it matches frontier labs at 1/20th the cost of Claude Opus 4.6 Shanghai-based MiniMax launched M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning, claiming performance on par with frontier models at up to 95% lower cost. They say M2.5 is strong on enterprise agentic tasks including generating Microsoft Office files, and that they validated quality with professionals in finance and law. MiniMax says 30% of its internal tasks are now done by M2.5, with 80% of code written by AI. The company’s Hong Kong-listed stock surged 40% this week alongside peer Zhipu. ( source ) Other important stories Spotify’s co-CEO said the company’s best devs haven’t written a line of code since December. They use an internal system called Honk, built on Claude Code, to ship features from Slack on their phones. ( source ) The AI scare trade hit trucking. A $6M-market-cap startup launched a freight tool, and the Russell 3000 Trucking Index dropped 10%. CH Robinson fell 24%. ( source ) Microsoft AI CEO told the FT that AI will automate most white-collar tasks within 18 months. Lawyers, accountants, project managers, marketers. ( source ) The Pentagon wants OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI to deploy unrestricted models on classified military networks. Anthropic is refusing. ( source ) Chrome shipped WebMCP, a proposed W3C standard that lets websites expose tools directly to AI agents. No more screen-scraping. ( source ) Full list of today’s stories at 7min.ai . submitted by /u/fabioperez
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