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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the 5-year-old research laboratory behind the Claude chatbot one of the world’s most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut. The announcement pushes Anthropic ahead of its chief rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, both in market value and in reported revenue. Anthropic said it’s now making annualized sales of $47 billion. Anthropic said the new round of funding was led by investment firms Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital.