{"id":143776,"date":"2026-08-18T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/143776\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:14:16","slug":"move-over-spacex-anthropic-targets-a-2-trillion-valuation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/143776\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over, SpaceX: Anthropic Targets a $2 Trillion Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Space Exploration Technologies, aka SpaceX, made history in June when it had the largest initial public offering (IPO) ever, raising nearly $85.7 billion. That was followed just a few weeks later by South Korean memory giant SK Hynix cross-listing on the Nasdaq Exchange, raising $26.5 billion through the sale of American depositary shares in the largest-ever foreign company listing in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The spate of new tech arrivals on Wall Street is not over yet, and the market has been anticipating IPOs from artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouses <a data-ylk=\"slk:Anthropic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/stocks\/how-to-invest-in-anthropic-stock\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=3ea3d10e-b16a-4682-9b93-0334246d5384\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic<\/a>, maker of large language model (LLM) Claude, and OpenAI, maker of LLM ChatGPT. Both companies have filed confidentially to go public but haven&#8217;t yet announced their precise plans, and both are valued at around $1 trillion based on their most recent private funding rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again.\u00a0In 2009, a &#8220;Double Down&#8221; signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia.\u00a0For the first time in years, that same &#8220;Total Conviction&#8221; signal is flashing for a company 1\/100th the size of Nvidia.\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:Continue \u00bb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=49dbb0ef-5b0e-4523-aa7b-973aee81226d&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fa-sa-dd-total-conviction%3Faid%3D11123%26source%3Disaediica0000074%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-dd-4%26ftm_veh%3Dtop_incontent_pitch_feed_yahoo%26ftm_pit%3D19375&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=3ea3d10e-b16a-4682-9b93-0334246d5384\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Cash, SEC form S-1, and a paper stock certificate.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/motleyfool.com\/eb425e3cb0c0e87d2422132c99e8a65a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anthropic management has been meeting with potential investors ahead of an IPO expected in September or October, and there were reports last week that it&#8217;s targeting a $2 trillion market cap for its debut.<\/p>\n<p>Can Anthropic dethrone SpaceX as the largest IPO ever?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When SpaceX merged with xAI earlier this year, it became a mix of three businesses: rocket launching, satellite broadband, and AI. With a 92% year-over-year increase in sales in the second quarter, it had $23.4 billion in trailing-12-month revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, only 12% of that second-quarter revenue came from rocket launching. Most of it, or 54%, came from Starlink, or what it calls the connectivity business. AI accounted for nearly 33%, but it was the major growth driver, increasing nearly 250% over last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re excited about SpaceX because of its space business, you need to understand that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s driving the company&#8217;s growth right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Anthropic is a competitor in the AI business;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/stocks\/spacex-competitors\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=3ea3d10e-b16a-4682-9b93-0334246d5384\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic is a competitor in the AI business<\/a>. Claude competes with SpaceX&#8217;s LLM, Grok, and it&#8217;s one of the most popular LLMs today. Although the public can&#8217;t access Anthropic&#8217;s full financials yet, it has released some numbers publicly, and those show that it&#8217;s growing fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In May, Anthropic said that it had achieved a $47 billion run rate. That&#8217;s well above SpaceX&#8217;s trailing-12-month revenue but in line with Wall Street&#8217;s $44.8 billion full-year 2026 estimate. According to Bloomberg, Anthropic&#8217;s revenue in the second quarter increased 14-fold from the prior-year period to $11.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The AI powerhouse has major deals with Amazon and Advanced Micro Devices, and it was reported last week that it&#8217;s in talks to buy start-up Decart, which operates a platform that helps LLMs run inference workloads more cost-effectively across a variety of chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When it debuted, SpaceX was worth $1.77 trillion, and it briefly crossed the $2 trillion threshold before falling back to levels below its IPO price. Today, it&#8217;s in the $1.9 trillion neighborhood. If Anthropic is already booking larger revenues than SpaceX and growing much faster, it might be able to command a high valuation and convince the market that it&#8217;s worth more than $2 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2009, a &#8220;Double Down&#8221; signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. If you&#8217;d invested $5,000 then,\u00a0you&#8217;d be sitting on\u00a0$2,921,629\u00a0today.*<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, for the first time in years, that same\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Total Conviction&quot; signal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=c5ff383a-005a-4824-9fe8-5dde39e25691&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fa-sa-dd-total-conviction%3Faid%3D11123%26source%3Disaeditxt0001215%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-dd-4%26ftm_veh%3Darticle_pitch_feed_yahoo%26ftm_pit%3D19385&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=3ea3d10e-b16a-4682-9b93-0334246d5384\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Total Conviction&#8221; signal<\/a>\u00a0is flashing for a company 1\/100th the size of Nvidia. It&#8217;s a key player in the $1.8 trillion space race, and with the stock recently sitting 20% off its highs, the window to get in early is closing fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Continue \u00bb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=c5ff383a-005a-4824-9fe8-5dde39e25691&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fa-sa-dd-total-conviction%3Faid%3D11123%26source%3Disaeditxt0001215%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-dd-4%26ftm_pit%3D19385%26ftm_veh%3Darticle_pitch_feed_yahoo&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=3ea3d10e-b16a-4682-9b93-0334246d5384\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">*Stock Advisor returns as of August 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Jennifer Saibil;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/author\/20154\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Saibil<\/a> has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. 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