Anthropic Makes TIME Magazine Cover with $380 Billion Valuation, Surpassing Goldman Sachs and Coca-Cola

Gate News reports that on March 12, Anthropic appeared on the cover of Time magazine’s latest issue, with CEO Dario Amodei at the center and the headline “The War for AI.” This is the first time an AI industry company has been featured on the cover of Time magazine. The report, written by journalists Harry Booth and Billy Perrigo after a three-day on-site interview at Anthropic’s headquarters, describes Anthropic as “the most disruptive company in the world.”

The article states that Anthropic has just completed a $30 billion funding round and may go public this year, with a valuation of $380 billion, surpassing Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s, and Coca-Cola. The Claude Code product alone has generated an annualized revenue of $2.5 billion as of February (projected to reach $1 billion by the end of 2025). According to Epoch and Semianalysis estimates, Anthropic is expected to surpass OpenAI’s total revenue by the end of 2026. Each new product launch causes stock market fluctuations; when Claude launched plugins for sales, finance, legal, and marketing aimed at non-programmers, the software company’s market value evaporated by $300 billion.

The feature also reveals internal details about the conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Amodei has maintained two red lines: banning Claude from being used in fully autonomous lethal weapons and for large-scale surveillance of U.S. citizens, after which the company was listed as a supply chain risk. In an internal memo leaked to the press, he wrote: “The real reason is that we didn’t donate to Trump, and we didn’t give dictator-like praise like Sam Altman.” Following the conflict, the Claude iPhone app topped the App Store charts, with over 1 million registrations daily.

The report also discloses that 70% to 90% of the code used to develop future models is now written by Claude itself, and Claude’s speed on certain critical tasks is 427 times faster than human supervisors. Chief Scientist Jared Kaplan believes that fully automated AI research could be achieved in just one year.