Anthropic moves toward public offering after massive funding round
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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, has taken steps toward a public stock offering after raising $65 billion in private funding. Multiple reports indicate the company has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, though the number of shares and price have not been set. The funding round, which pushed Anthropic’s valuation to $965 billion, was co-led by several major investment firms. The company also reported an annualized revenue run rate of $47 billion, a sharp increase from the previous year. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees and has grown into a major competitor to OpenAI and other AI labs. The IPO preparations come as both OpenAI and SpaceX also move toward public listings, setting up a highly active IPO season.
What’s verified
Anthropic raised $65 billion in private funding, reaching a valuation of $965 billion.
The company’s annualized revenue run rate is $47 billion.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees.
OpenAI raised $122 billion in March at an $852 billion post-money valuation and is also expected to file for an IPO.
Not yet confirmed
Whether Anthropic has formally submitted a confidential IPO filing with the SEC is reported by only one source; other sources describe the company as moving toward a public offering without confirming the filing.
The details of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, including its discovery of thousands of high-severity bugs and a potential agreement with the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, come from a single source.
The launch of a new Claude model called Claude Opus 4.8 is mentioned by only one source.
Reports of an outage affecting the Claude chatbot at the time of the IPO announcement come from a single source.
SpaceX’s valuation and IPO plans are reported with different figures: one source states SpaceX is targeting a $2 trillion valuation and raising over $75 billion; another source states SpaceX was valued at $800 billion last year and grew to $1.25 trillion after merging with xAI in February.
Key figures
Krishna Rao – Chief Financial Officer of Anthropic (quoted in one source)
Sources: TechCrunch, abcnews.com, theregister.com
