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Anthropic Files Confidentially For IPO

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Anthropic has confidentially filed for an IPO, following a $65 billion Series H that valued it at $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI's valuation.

Anthropic Files Confidentially For IPO

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Anthropic announced on Monday that it has submitted a confidential filing for an IPO, though details on size and listing venue remain undisclosed. The move comes after the company closed a $65 billion Series H funding round last week, more than doubling its post-money valuation to $965 billion and surpassing OpenAI's $840 billion valuation from February. Anthropic has raised nearly $129 billion across 20 rounds. The filing intensifies the race among generative AI leaders to go public, but the process still requires regulatory approval, a public filing, and a roadshow. If Anthropic follows a timeline similar to SpaceX—which filed confidentially on April 1 and is expected to debut June 12—a market listing could occur as early as August. The eventual public filing will reveal details on Anthropic's revenue growth and capital expenditures.
Why It Matters
Anthropic's confidential IPO filing signals the next phase in the generative AI arms race, as leading labs seek public capital to fund massive compute and talent costs. If successful, it could set a valuation benchmark for AI companies and force rivals like OpenAI to accelerate their own public market plans, reshaping the tech IPO landscape.

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Anthropic said Monday that it has submitted a confidential filing for a proposed IPO.

The statement was light on details and did not specify the planned offering size or where it will list. For its most recent funding round, a $65 billion Series H funding announced last week, the San Francisco company more than doubled its post-money valuation to a staggering $965 billion.

With that round, Anthropic also surpassed its closest rival, OpenAI, in terms of last reported valuation. In February, OpenAI announced it had closed a $110 billion round at an $840 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic has now raised nearly $129 billion from investors across 20 funding rounds, per Crunchbase data.

The path to the public markets

The IPO filing marks an escalation in the race among generative AI behemoths to make it first to the public market. That said, it could still be while.

Before making its market debut, Anthropic must still receive a sign-off from securities regulators on its confidential filing. After that, it will need to submit its public filing, carry out its pre-IPO roadshow, and put the remaining pieces in place for an offering of this presumed magnitude.

How long could it take? It’s unclear, of course, but if we use SpaceX as a proxy, things could proceed briskly. SpaceX, which is reportedly seeking a valuation of $1.8 trillion or more, submitted its confidential filing on April 1. The company is expected to begin trading this month, with multiple reports citing June 12 as the target date.

If Anthropic follows a similar timeline, we could potentially see a market debut in August. Before that, however, will be the public filing of its IPO prospectus, which will offer a long-awaited peek under the hood at Anthropic’s famously fast revenue growth and the scope of the capital expenditures it has taken to get there.

As someone who has used the word boring in IPO market headlines many times in the past, one thing that can assuredly be said is that word no longer applies.

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