Anthropic IPO Filing Sparks Investor Frenzy as AI Company Valuation Targets $60 Billion.
San Francisco, California – A landmark filing has been submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, formally initiating the Initial Public Offering process for Anthropic, the artificial intelligence research and safety company co-founded by former OpenAI employees Dario and Daniela Amodei. According to the preliminary prospectus, the company aims to raise approximately $8 billion, which would value the entity at a projected $60 billion. The offering is set to proceed under the ticker symbol ANTH on the New York Stock Exchange.
The filing, made public on Thursday, details a two-class share structure designed to retain control over the firm’s core safety mission amid intense market demand for generative AI technology. The development follows a period of unprecedented institutional interest, with major underwriters including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase managing the 144-million-share offering. Analysts attribute the high valuation to Anthropic’s proprietary large language model, Claude, and its direct competition with OpenAI, which has yet to announce its own IPO timeline. The decision to go public now is seen as a strategic move to capitalize on current market valuations and secure long-term capital for scaling compute infrastructure. The final pricing for the shares is expected to be set in the coming weeks, with trading anticipated to commence before the end of the second fiscal quarter.