{"id":148551,"date":"2026-08-23T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/148551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:57:10","slug":"anthropic-the-largest-ipo-ever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/148551\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic: the largest IPO ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\"The<\/a> Anthropic faces animus in Silicon Valley over its dominance. | Credit: Michael M. Santiago \/ Getty Images <\/p>\n

Just a couple of years ago, Anthropic was an underdog in the AI race<\/a>. Now the San Francisco start-up, co-founded by CEO Dario Amodei, is preparing to float in October “at a valuation of $2 trillion or more”, said George Hammond in the Financial Times<\/a> \u2013 “a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX and make the AI lab’s debut the largest-ever initial public offering”. <\/p>\n

Booming demand <\/p>\n

Anthropic’s growth has been astonishing even by Silicon Valley standards. Valued at around $965 billion in May, when it eclipsed arch-rival OpenAI<\/a> for the first time, investors reckon the $2 trillion price tag is justified by booming demand for the Claude<\/a> maker’s advanced AI models and coding tools \u2013 especially from business. Annualised revenue is expected to rise more than ten times this year to around \u00a3100-120 billion. <\/p>\n

The usual suspects \u2013 Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase \u2013 are working on the listing, said Bloomberg<\/a>. If it proceeds as scheduled, Anthropic will debut not just before OpenAI, but also before DeepSeek<\/a> \u2013 the Chinese AI firm that has been grabbing increasing market share. <\/p>\n

‘Tough’ questions <\/p>\n

Growing Chinese competition is just one of the “tough investor questions” Anthropic will have to field, said The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Others include “tensions with the Trump administration<\/a>” \u2013 which forced it to briefly pull leading models Fable 5 and Mythos 5<\/a> \u2013 and “a growing backlash” against data centres<\/a>. Additionally, Anthropic faces animus in Silicon Valley, where many CEOs are “nervous about its power over the AI ecosystem”. <\/p>\n

The recent sell-off in SpaceX’s shares after an early pop has also “reminded investors of how turbulent moving from private to public markets can be”. Still, for the moment, Anthropic is lifting “Wall Street’s animal spirits”, said Due Diligence in the FT<\/a>. Come autumn, the street will be buzzing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Anthropic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3261,1296,9285,2752,72828,304,1161],"class_list":["post-148551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-dario-amodei","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-initial-public-offering","tag-jpmorgan-chase","tag-michael-m-santiago","tag-morgan-stanley","tag-silicon-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}