Anthropic Joins Frontier's $1.8B Carbon Removal Push

Anthropic has become the first pure AI startup to join Frontier, the carbon removal coalition backed by Stripe, Google, and Shopify. The move comes alongside a new $915 million funding tranche, nearly doubling Frontier's total pledges to $1.8 billion. The membership is notable given AI companies' recent energy-hungry expansion. It marks Anthropic's first climate-related commitment, as the company has yet to publish a sustainability report. Frontier plans to shift focus toward fewer, larger projects targeting gigaton-scale carbon removal, with new contracts requiring recipients to demonstrate a path to government funding support.