# Anthropic Says It May Need Financing Earlier After Delaying Model Training

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-10-26T17:07:01.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-26T17:07:01.000Z
Section: Business

> The company said it postponed pretraining a frontier base model by more than a month to strengthen safeguards against leaks of its weights.

Anthropic said Monday it may need to seek additional financing sooner than previously expected, while disclosing a delay of more than a month to pretraining a frontier base model.

The company said the postponement was intended to strengthen safeguards against model-weight leaks.