Anthropic to buy back employee shares at $61.5 billion valuation: The Information

Amazon- and Google-backed AI startup Anthropic is planning its first-ever employee share buyback, a move that signals how competitive the war for AI talent has become amid record valuations and surging investor interest in frontier model companies.According to a report by Silicon Valley tech publication The Information, Anthropic will repurchase shares from current and former employees at a valuation of $61.5 billion—the same figure at which it recently closed a $3.5 billion Series E round. The offering will give employees the chance to liquidate a…