'Big Short' investor Michael Burry is not impressed with Anthropic valuation; says: Claude-maker's business of developing AI models is far too expensive, too much ...
Summary
Michael Burry criticized Anthropic's near-$1 trillion valuation and argued that its AI model business is too expensive to sustain. The article says Anthropic recently raised capital at a $965 billion valuation, putting it close to a $1 trillion price tag. Burry warned that the company relies on brute-force compute and that AI infrastructure spending may outpace real demand. He also extended the same skepticism to SpaceX's IPO ambitions and said hype is outweighing fundamentals.
Funding
Amount
$965.0B
Total raised
Date
June 4, 2026
Announcement date
Investors
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Lead investors
Company
anthropic.com
Funded company
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AI Software
SaaS
Developer Tools
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Anthropic
$10M to $25M