{"id":419598,"date":"2026-02-13T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/elon-musk-accuses-anthropic-ai-of-being-misanthropic-after-30b-funding-round-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:33:05","slug":"elon-musk-accuses-anthropic-ai-of-being-misanthropic-after-30b-funding-round-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/elon-musk-accuses-anthropic-ai-of-being-misanthropic-after-30b-funding-round-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Accuses Anthropic AI of Being &#8216;Misanthropic&#8217; After $30B Funding Round &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;overflow:visible;font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.58\">\n<div class=\"pt-8 pb-10 border-t border-b border-decryptGridline \">\n<h4 class=\"sc-b2a202e4-4 bNRGqr gg-dark:text-white\" color=\"#333\">In brief<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Anthropic has raised $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue.<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Elon Musk responded to the announcement by accusing Claude of hating &#8220;Whites &#038; Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men,&#8221; calling it &#8220;misanthropic and evil.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"font-meta-serif-pro font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The attack comes as more than a dozen senior researchers have departed his own lab, xAI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Elon Musk called Anthropic&#8217;s AI &#8220;misanthropic and evil&#8221; on Thursday, hours after the Claude maker announced a $30 billion funding round that valued the company at $380 billion, positioning it as one of the most capitalised private companies in the world, and the most valuable AI lab outside of OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The attack came in response to Anthropic&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthropicAI\/status\/2022023155423002867\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">tweet<\/a> announcing its Series G raise, co-led by Singapore&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund GIC and investment firm Coatue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative w-full\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet mx-auto\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019ve raised $30B in funding at a $380B post-money valuation.<\/p>\n<p>This investment will help us deepen our research, continue to innovate in products, and ensure we have the resources to power our infrastructure expansion as we make Claude available everywhere our customers are.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnthropicAI\/status\/2022023155423002867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">February 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">&#8220;Your AI hates Whites &#038; Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men,&#8221; Musk <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2022036387885892022\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">tweeted<\/a>. &#8220;This is misanthropic and evil. Fix it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">&#8220;Frankly, I don&#8217;t think there is anything you can do to escape the inevitable irony of Anthropic ending up being Misanthropic,&#8221; the billionaire added. &#8220;You were doomed to this fate when you chose your name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Anthropic has yet to respond to <i>Decrypt\u2019s<\/i> request for comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative w-full\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet mx-auto\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your AI hates Whites &#038; Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men. <\/p>\n<p>This is misanthropic and evil. Fix it. <\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don\u2019t think there is anything you can do to escape the inevitable irony of Anthropic ending up being Misanthropic. You were doomed to this fate when you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2022036387885892022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">February 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The Tesla CEO\u2019s attack on Anthropic lands at a difficult moment for his own AI venture, with more than a dozen senior researchers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/357808\/ai-builders-sending-warning-signals-some-walking-away\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">departing xAI<\/a> between February 3 and 11, including co-founders Jimmy Ba and Yuhuai &#8220;Tony&#8221; Wu, who led reasoning and reported directly to Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Some departures were attributed to the company&#8217;s pending integration with SpaceX; others said they were leaving to start new ventures.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"sc-b2a202e4-2 bmropA gg-dark:text-white scene:font-itc-avant-garde-gothic-pro scene:font-light\" style=\"margin-top:2em;text-align:left;padding-bottom:16px;margin-bottom:16px;border-bottom:1px solid #dfe2e4\" color=\"#333\">AI leaders spar<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Anthropic\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">Series G round<\/a> was co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX, with participation from Sequoia Capital, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Temasek, the Qatar Investment Authority, and dozens of other institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">A portion of the round includes previously announced investments from Microsoft and NVIDIA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Anthropic said its annualised run-rate revenue has now reached $14 billion, growing more than 10x annually for three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Claude Code alone has surpassed $2.5 billion in run-rate revenue, more than doubling since the start of 2026, with a recent analysis estimating it now authors 4% of all public GitHub commits worldwide, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The raise trails only OpenAI&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/312552\/openais-40b-funding-round-japans-softbank\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">$40 billion SoftBank-led round<\/a> last year, the company Musk co-founded in 2015 before stepping away from its board in 2018, citing a potential conflict of interest as Tesla expanded its own AI work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Since then, the relationship between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has curdled into open warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Last month, the two <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/355242\/sam-altman-hits-back-at-elon-musk-over-chatgpt-safety-claims\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">clashed publicly<\/a> after Musk warned his followers, &#8220;Don&#8217;t let your loved ones use ChatGPT,&#8221; citing a post linking the chatbot to nine deaths, including five suicides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Altman fired back, pointing to reports of more than 50 deaths linked to Tesla&#8217;s Autopilot and accusing Musk of hypocrisy on AI safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Apart from the personal feud, Musk has accused OpenAI of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/308799\/judge-denies-elon-musk-bid-block-openai\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">abandoning its nonprofit mission<\/a> and filed multiple <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/341517\/elon-musks-xai-sues-openai-again-this-time-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">lawsuits<\/a> against the company in the last 2 years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"https:\/\/myriad.markets\/embed\/market\/which-bubble-bursts-first\" width=\"100%\" height=\"415px\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:0px;overflow:hidden;line-height:0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">Meanwhile, competition between Anthropic and OpenAI has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/357142\/openai-anthropic-rival-ai-models-competition-enterprise-heats-up\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">accelerated<\/a>, with the firms releasing rival, Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex, within an hour of each other, splitting benchmark leads across enterprise reasoning and agentic coding tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-meta-serif-pro scene:font-noto-sans scene:text-base scene:md:text-lg font-normal text-lg md:text-xl md:leading-9 tracking-px text-body gg-dark:text-neutral-100\">The rivalry has also turned public through Super Bowl ads and product jabs, with Anthropic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/356946\/anthropic-trolls-openai-chatgpt-super-bowl-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">mocking ChatGPT ads<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/357494\/chatgpt-ads-hours-after-anthropic-super-bowl-commercials\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-adb616fe-0 bJsyml\">OpenAI rolling out limited ad tests<\/a> hours later as both race for enterprise AI dominance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4 border-b border-decryptGridline\">\n<div class=\"text-start p-8 md:py-12 md:px-12 max-w-prose relative\"><span class=\"border-t-4 border-l-4 w-4 h-4 md:border-t-[6px] md:border-l-[6px] md:w-6 md:h-6 border-decryptPurple dark:border-decryptNeon gg-dark:border-cc-pink-2 absolute top-4 left-4 md:top-6 md:left-6\"\/><span class=\"border-t-4 border-l-4 w-4 h-4 md:border-t-[6px] md:border-l-[6px] md:w-6 md:h-6 border-decryptPurple dark:border-decryptNeon gg-dark:border-cc-pink-2 absolute rotate-180 bottom-4 right-4 md:bottom-6 md:right-6\"\/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"font-akzidenz-grotesk font-bold text-xl md:text-3xl md:text-center gg-dark:text-white\">Daily Debrief<!-- --> Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p>Start every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features, a podcast, videos and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief Anthropic has raised $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue. 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