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Research lens	OpenAI ↗	Anthropic ↗	Mistral AI ↗
Listing evidence	Filing announced	Listing unconfirmed	Listing unconfirmed
Business model	Subscriptions and usage-based access connect consumer, developer and enterprise customers to AI models and tools. The central economic question is how paid demand develops relative to compute, research and distribution costs.	Claude is sold through consumer subscriptions, enterprise products and APIs, including cloud distribution partners. Adoption matters alongside inference costs, customer retention and the capital required to develop new models.	Open-weight models sit alongside commercial software, deployment services and AI infrastructure. The research question is whether customer control and European sovereignty needs support durable paid demand.
Selected founders	Sam Altman, Greg Brockman	Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei	Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix
Most recent event covered	New investment announcement · Feb 27, 2026	Series F · Sep 2, 2025	Series D · Sep 8, 2026
Disclosed amount	$110B	$13B	€3B
Valuation and basis	$730B · Pre-money valuation · Feb 27, 2026	$183B · Post-money valuation · Sep 2, 2025	More than €21B · Post-money valuation · Sep 8, 2026
Named investors in cited events	SoftBank, NVIDIA, Amazon	ICONIQ, Fidelity Management & Research, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, GIC	Samsung Electronics, Scaleup Europe Fund / EQT, PSG Equity, ASML, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, a16z
Key question	Enterprise and developer adoption — what changed in the latest original disclosure?	Enterprise usage — what changed in the latest original disclosure?	Enterprise renewal and deployment expansion.
Key risks	Capital intensity. Competition and commoditization. Governance and regulatory uncertainty.	Compute concentration. Pricing pressure. Fast-moving model competition.	Building models and infrastructure at the same time requires substantial capital. Commercial differentiation can narrow as competitors improve.
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