Anthropic Lands on Time Magazine Cover: Called "the Most Disruptive Company in the World," $380 Billion Valuation Surpasses Goldman Sachs and Coca-Cola

According to CoinWorld, based on monitoring by 1M AI News, Anthropic has appeared on the cover of the latest issue of Time magazine, with CEO Dario Amodei at the center. The cover headline reads “The War for AI.” This is the first time an AI industry company has featured a cover story in Time (previously, the 2025 Person of the Year was a group called “AI Architects”). The report, written by reporters 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 highlights Anthropic’s current scale: having just completed a $30 billion funding round (potential IPO this year), with a valuation of $380 billion, surpassing Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s, and Coca-Cola. The Claude Code product alone has generated an annual revenue of $2.5 billion as of February (projected to reach $1 billion by the end of 2025). According to Epoch and Semianalysis, Anthropic is expected to surpass OpenAI’s total revenue by the end of 2026.

Every 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 deeply reveals the behind-the-scenes conflict between Anthropic and the Pentagon. After adhering to two red lines—prohibiting Claude from being used for fully autonomous lethal weapons and large-scale surveillance of U.S. citizens—Amodei 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, unlike Sam Altman, who gave praise in a dictator-like manner.”

Following the conflict, Claude’s 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. In some critical tasks, Claude’s speed is 427 times that of human supervisors. Chief Scientist Jared Kaplan believes fully automated AI research could be achieved in just one year.