AI giant Anthropic says it plans to list on US stock market
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- Anthropic filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. SEC to launch an IPO this year, though price and share count remain unset.
- Anthropic's latest private valuation topped $965 billion, outpacing OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation.
- Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO and former OpenAI executive, founded the company after leaving OpenAI over disagreements with Sam Altman.
- OpenAI is also weighing a public listing, but CEO Sam Altman told CNBC the company isn’t in a rush and will go public “when it makes sense.”
- Analysts (Troy Hooper, Harrison Rolfes) say Anthropic’s IPO will be the most closely examined tech offering ever and will set the valuation benchmark for generative‑AI firms.
Why it matters: Investors gain a new high‑valued AI play as Anthropic’s $965 billion IPO sets pricing standards for generative‑AI firms, while rivals like OpenAI feel pressure to justify their own valuations before a public debut.
