Billionaire Bill Ackman calls Anthropic 'perhaps the greatest business story I've ever seen'

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said his hedge fund likely won't invest in AI startup Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) but that it's still an impressive company. "Anthropic is perhaps the greatest business story I've ever seen," Ackman said on Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg TV. "It's clearly an amazing company," Ackman said, praising the company's revenue and valuation ramp-up along with the quality of its Claude product. He stopped short, however, of saying his hedge fund, Pershing Square (PS, PSUS), would add shares of the frontier AI model maker to its portfolio. "We look to buy businesses that we can predict what they're going to look like over a very long period of time.