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PLUS: Anthropic Raises $13B at $183B Valuation 💰
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September 03, 2025
Today’s Highlights:
🧠 OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1B
💰 Anthropic Raises $13B at $183B Valuation
🌐 OpenAI Plans Stargate Data Center in India
🌍 Tencent Drops Translation Models That Beat Google
🎯 Claude Gets Powerful Personalization Boost
🚫 NVIDIA Halts H20 Chip Production for China
🎙️ OpenAI Drops gpt-realtime for Voice Agents
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OPENAI
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OpenAI just made one of its biggest moves yet — acquiring product testing startup Statsig in a $1.1 billion all-stock deal. The goal? Supercharge its Applications division and ship faster.
The Details:
OpenAI will bring on Statsig’s entire team and keep the startup operational in Seattle under the OpenAI umbrella
Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji joins as CTO of Applications and will lead product engineering for ChatGPT, Codex, and future tools
Fidji Simo (ex-Instacart CEO) now leads OpenAI’s Applications division and will oversee this expansion
OpenAI’s Kevin Weil shifts to a new role building “OpenAI for Science,” an AI-powered platform to accelerate scientific breakthroughs
Head of engineering Srinivas Narayanan becomes CTO of B2B Applications, working closely with COO Brad Lightcap
Why it matters:
This deal signals OpenAI’s serious push into enterprise and consumer app development. By adding experimentation tools and high-level talent, it wants to move faster — and smarter — in launching new AI products. With ex-Instacart, Meta, and Microsoft leaders in place, OpenAI is no longer just a lab. It’s becoming a product machine.
ANTHROPIC
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Anthropic just secured one of the largest AI funding rounds to date — a massive $13B Series F — valuing the company at $183B. With this, Anthropic sets the stage for global expansion and enterprise dominance in AI.
The Details:
Round co-led by Iconiq, Fidelity, and Lightspeed, with participation from Altimeter, QIA, BlackRock, Ontario Teachers, and others
Funds will accelerate Claude’s enterprise adoption, AI safety research, and international scale-up
Annual recurring revenue jumped from $1B to $5B in 2025, driven by enterprise API demand
Anthropic now serves 300,000+ business customers; $100K+ accounts have grown 7x in the past year
Claude Code generates over $500M in run-rate revenue — usage up 10x in just 3 months
CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged tough funding choices, citing pressure to accept capital from sovereign funds despite ethical concerns
Why it matters:
Anthropic is rapidly emerging as OpenAI’s closest challenger. This raise gives it the war chest to scale Claude globally and double down on AI-native developer tools — all while navigating ethical trade-offs in funding.
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AI & TECH NEWS
OpenAI will build a major data hub in India under its Stargate expansion, aiming to localize AI infrastructure and ease U.S. reliance. The move follows Altman’s India visit and includes talks for local partnerships and government support.
Tencent open-sourced Hunyuan MT 7B and Chimera 7B—compact models that outperformed Google Translate in 30 of 31 languages. With strong support for underserved tongues and top-tier accuracy, they’re now live on GitHub and Hugging Face.
OpenAI launched gpt-realtime, its fastest and smartest voice model yet—now live in the Realtime API. With image input, SIP support, MCP integration, and better reasoning, it’s built for full-scale voice AI deployment at 20% lower cost.
NVIDIA has paused H20 chip production after China warned firms not to use them over tracking concerns. Despite CEO Jensen Huang’s reassurances, Chinese skepticism remains—a major setback just as NVIDIA regained export clearance.
Abu Dhabi’s G42 is building a 5‑gigawatt AI megacampus, aiming to reduce Nvidia dependence and attract AMD, Cerebras, and major players like Google and xAI. One gigawatt is already reserved for OpenAI’s Stargate.
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