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Anthropic files to go public, setting stage for huge IPO

It would be one of the biggest Wall Street debuts this year along with expected IPOs from SpaceX and OpenAI.

Signage at a Code with Claude event in San Francisco, May 7, 2026. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed on Monday, June 1, for an initial public offering.
Signage at a Code with Claude event in San Francisco, May 7, 2026. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed on Monday, June 1, for an initial public offering.Read moreJASON HENRY / New York Times
    by Mike Isaac, New York Times
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SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed Monday for an initial public offering, becoming the latest to join what could be a once-in-a-generation, moneymaking moment on Wall Street.

Anthropic’s IPO is expected to be among a trio of high-profile companies preparing to go public this year, along with rocket company SpaceX and OpenAI, which started the AI boom in 2022 with its ChatGPT chatbot.

Last week, Anthropic officially passed its rival OpenAI as the world’s highest-flying AI start-up. Anthropic said it had raised $65 billion in financing that valued it at $900 billion before the inclusion of the new capital, a deal that put it ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion.

Its IPO, which would be among the biggest ever along with SpaceX and OpenAI, could create a tsunami of investment and employee wealth, and mint the world’s first trillionaire in Elon Musk, who owns about 50% of SpaceX. The public offerings could also flood the nonprofit world with new money, since Anthropic and OpenAI have both pledged a large part of their shares to charity.

This article originally appeared in the New York Times.

    Mike Isaac, New York Times