Anthropic completes its takeover bid; employees reduce their share offering amount due to optimistic expectations.

According to Huoxun Finance, Anthropic employees have completed a partial secondary sale of their shares initiated earlier this year. However, due to a limited number of shares employees were willing to sell, some investors were unable to acquire the full amount of shares as planned. The offer price was consistent with the company's valuation in its latest funding round in February, which valued the company at $350 billion. The total amount raised in this share sale has not been disclosed, but it is lower than the $6 billion previously raised by investors. Anthropic employees hope to retain more shares ahead of the company's expected initial public offering (IPO) this year. This lower-than-expected transaction reflects employee optimism about the company's prospects as its annualized revenue rises: last month, the company's annualized revenue exceeded $19 billion, and in April, it announced that its annualized operating revenue had surpassed $30 billion.