Anthropic Draws Investor Offers at Over $800 Billion Value
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss why Anthropic has rebuffed investors' efforts to back the company with funding that would value it at more than $800 billion. Plus, Meta expands a multi-billion-dollar partnership with Broadcom to design and build custom chips. And ASML, the supplier of cutting-edge chipmaking machines, raises its full-year sales forecast as AI demand fuels growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. |
| 0:11.7 | Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast, with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovello in |
| 0:18.7 | San Francisco. |
| 0:22.2 | This is Bloomberg Tech coming up. Anthropic rebuffs investors pushing offers on funding |
| 0:28.1 | that would value it at more than $800 billion. |
| 0:31.5 | Plus, Meta expands a multi-billion dollar partnership with Broadcom to design and build custom |
| 0:36.1 | chips. |
| 0:37.1 | And A-SML, the supplier of cutting |
| 0:39.1 | edge chip making machines raises its full year sales forecast as AI demand fuels growth. |
| 0:45.7 | And that demand is fueling growth when it comes to the benchmarks. Today, Ed, despite the ongoing |
| 0:51.4 | anxiety about conflict in the Middle East, but hope optimism that some sort of extension to the ceasefire might be found, we are at or near record highs. The S&P 500 is at a new record high. If we hold on to these gains towards the close, we're up 3 tenths of percent. The NASDAQA 100 ever so close to a record high that it had last year. We're up six tenths of percent. But look at the |
| 1:10.9 | length of gains that we have had. The Nassau 100 is now up for 11 straight days. It is increased |
| 1:17.2 | by 13 percent over that stretch. So long as Winner Streets is 2019, Ed? Single movers, this is |
| 1:23.6 | what's driving the market right now. Look at Brawcom up almost 4%. Meta's actually also pushing high. I think that's probably more in line with where the market the market right now. Look at Broadcom up almost 4%. Meta's actually also pushing |
| 1:28.5 | high. I think that's probably more in line with where the market's at right now. This is an |
| 1:32.3 | expansion of an existing agreement. Broadcom works with Meta for their custom silicon. And later |
| 1:38.6 | in the block, we're going to talk to Mandip Singh, who leads our research at Bloomberg Intelligence. |
| 1:43.5 | We're also going to take a look |
| 1:44.1 | at some of the pictures from when I visited Mehta and get into detail about what those chips |
| 1:48.0 | actually are. In private markets is where the big story is right now. Anthropic is drawing investor |
| 1:54.8 | interest at a valuation of $800 billion or higher. That would be a massive jump from its $350 billion price tag. It's just in |
| 2:04.6 | February, Bloomberg's from Natasha Mascaranus, part of the team that broke this story. Let's be super |
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