Anthropic Hits $380B Valuation & OpenAI Accuses DeepSeek of IP Theft

The AI capital wars reach new heights as **Anthropic raises $30B**, hitting a staggering **$380B valuation** to challenge OpenAI's dominance. Tensions flare as **OpenAI** formally accuses Chinese rival **DeepSeek** of "distillation" and IP theft in a memo to the US Congress. Meanwhile, **Meta** begins construction on a massive **$10B data center** in Indiana to secure its compute future.Also in this episode: **Samsung** kicks off mass production of next-gen HBM4 memory, and Google DeepMind's **Aletheia** agent successfully writes a mathematics research paper.Sources:• PitchBook: https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/anthropic-surpasses-openai-in-ai-cash-race-after-raising-30b-series-g• Investing.com: https://www.investing.com/news/technology-news/deepseek-accused-of-using-distillation-to-copy-openai-models-3870624• TipRanks: https://www.tipranks.com/news/meta-stock-up-on-10b-indiana-buildout-despite-big-tech-ai-spend-worries• Samsung: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-ships-industry-first-commercial-hbm4-with-ultimate-performance-for-ai-computing• The Decoder: https://the-decoder.com/deepminds-research-ai-occasionally-solves-what-humans-cant-and-mostly-gets-everything-else-wrong/