Anthropic prepares for IPO as Softbank seeks $10B for OpenAI
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-08-29
Anthropic IPO and OpenAI funding
Anthropic is reportedly planning to file its prospectus as early as 10 days from now, aiming to raise at least $130 billion to expand computing power. Simultaneously, SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion two-year loan to refinance debt related to its OpenAI investment, with plans to invest nearly $65 billion by October.
New model and tool releases
Tencent released Hunyuan Hy4preview, a 770B parameter model with 49B active parameters and 1M context length, excelling in coding and office tasks. Anthropic launched "Model Hardware Standard" (MHS), its first AI tool for the physical world, reducing hardware integration time from weeks to minutes.
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- Robotics startup Sharpa raised over 4.5 billion RMB from investors including Alibaba, Meituan, and Tencent.
- Changxin Technology reported 77.6 billion RMB in H1 net profit; former Alibaba Cloud chief architect Lin Wei left to start a venture.
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