# Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI executives.

*genai · news · 2026-02-11 · Firstpost*

## Key points

- Blackstone is increasing its investment in Anthropic to about $1 billion in the latest funding round.
- The funding round values Anthropic at approximately $35 billion, according to Reuters sources.
- Anthropic launched Opus 4.6, its new AI flagship system, focused on better reasoning and coding.
- The Opus 4.6 model shows performance gains in software development and financial analysis tasks.
- Recent AI advances like Anthropic's have raised fears about declining demand for traditional software.

**Companies:** Blackstone, Amazon, Alphabet, Anthropic
**Countries:** United States

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