Anthropic Secures $30 B Funding as Elon Musk Accuses It of Discriminating Against Chinese

Anthropic disclosed a $30 billion Series G financing led by GIC and Coatue, with participation from D.E. Shaw Ventures and Founders Fund, pushing its valuation to $380 billion and its annualized revenue to $14 billion—more than ten‑fold growth each year for the past three years. The company also highlighted that its Claude Code programming assistant accounts for 4% of all public GitHub code submissions, and it claims to be the preferred intelligent platform for enterprises and developers.

Elon Musk reacted on X, reposting Anthropic’s announcement and writing a scathing comment: "Your AI hates Whites & Asians, especially Chinese, heterosexuals and men. This is misanthropic and evil. Fix it." He also word‑played on the company name, turning "Anthropic" (meaning "human‑related") into "Misanthropic" (meaning "hating humanity").

The controversy touches on a core clash in the U.S. AI community between so‑called “woke culture” and AI alignment. Three specific concerns are raised:

Over‑corrected safety guardrails: Anthropic’s “Constitutional AI” aims for high safety, but critics—including Musk—argue the safeguards are excessively restrictive.

Stereotypes against certain groups: Critics claim AI models apply a double standard on race and gender topics, potentially distorting facts to appear politically correct.

Targeting of Chinese people: Musk singled out "especially Chinese" as a group the model allegedly discriminates against.

Despite the funding triumph and Claude’s impressive coding capabilities, the debate over AI bias and discrimination is expected to intensify. For everyday users, a tool that is objective, fair, and free of colored lenses may be the truly needed future, as technology should serve all humanity rather than echo a particular ideology.