Institutional investors are fleeing OpenAI shares on the secondary market while rushing to buy Anthropic equity, with buyers prepared to deploy $2B into Anthropic at valuations 50% above its last funding round. The shift reflects investor concerns about OpenAI's escalating infrastructure costs and Anthropic's dominance in the higher-margin enterprise market, despite the latter facing regulatory and security challenges.
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OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic
Institutional investors deploy $2B into Anthropic at 50% premium valuations while fleeing OpenAI secondary shares, citing concerns over unsustainable infrastructure costs versus Anthropic's higher-margin enterprise dominance.
Monday, April 6, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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