SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 24 \u2014 The market debut of artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, a chief rival to OpenAI, could break the record set by SpaceX, US media have reported.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk\u2019s space company went public in June at a value of US$1.77 trillion (RM7.15 trillion) and raised US$85.7 billion in its blockbuster initial public offering, the largest in history.<\/p>\n
Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI models, \u201cexpects to match or beat the size\u201d of SpaceX\u2019s deal, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s bankers have told potential investors it could seek to raise \u201cmore than US$100 billion\u201d in its IPO, which could put the company\u2019s value at US$2 trillion, The New York Times reported Friday, citing two unnamed sources with knowledge of the talks.<\/p>\n
That would more than double the five-year-old company\u2019s previous valuation at US$965 billion, reached in its last funding round in June.<\/p>\n
Only a handful of companies including Apple, Microsoft and chip maker Nvidia have surpassed the US$2 trillion mark.<\/p>\n
Anthropic declined AFP\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n
After filing to go public in June, the company could reveal its public offering prospectus in the coming weeks, the Times reported, with shares possibly listed in the autumn.<\/p>\n
Anthropic could then beat OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, to market. That company is hoping to list its shares in 2027.<\/p>\n
Founded in 2021 by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei and other former executives at OpenAI, Anthropic has positioned itself as a safety-focused alternative in the AI race.<\/p>\n
Claude Code, its coding assistant for developers, has become one of its most popular products, helping push its projected annual revenue to US$47 billion.<\/p>\n
Anthropic\u2019s commercial success has been accompanied by difficulties in meeting demand for computing power, amid a shortage of chips and servers.<\/p>\n
Potential investors could be dissuaded by the company\u2019s difficult relationship with President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
In March, the government broke off its contracts with Anthropic and designated the company a supply chain risk after it refused to grant the military unfettered access to its AI models.<\/p>\n
Anthropic called the Defence Department\u2019s move unconstitutional retaliation. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 24 \u2014 The market debut of artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, a chief rival to OpenAI,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3236,3261,140,157,658],"class_list":["post-148944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-claude-ai","tag-dario-amodei","tag-elon-musk","tag-openai","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148944","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=148944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}