Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, is joining Frontier, a carbon removal coalition backed by Stripe, Google, and Shopify. It is the first AI-focused startup to participate in the group. Frontier announced a new $915 million funding commitment from its members, bringing total pledges to $1.8 billion. Since 2022, the coalition has contracted nearly $700 million across more than 50 carbon removal projects. Frontier acts as an intermediary between buyers and carbon removal developers. It evaluates emerging companies and signs long-term purchase agreements with projects that can deliver measurable atmospheric carbon dioxide reductions. The coalition was created to address emissions that are hard to eliminate with current technology, such as those from air travel. Anthropic's entry signals growing interest from the AI industry in carbon removal as a tool for meeting net-zero goals.
