PremiumMike Isaac and Cade MetzNew York Times·29 May, 2026 03:55 AM3 mins to readAnthropic has surpassed OpenAI as the highest-valued AI start-up, now valued at $900 billion. Photo / Getty ImagesAnthropic, once the lesser-known artificial intelligence competitor to OpenAI, has been on an inexorable rise over the past few months.
The San Francisco company recently duelled with the Pentagon over the use of AI in warfare. It released a powerful AI model, Mythos, that it said was uncannily capable of
