Big surprise! Anthropic is going public!
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed on Monday for an initial public offering, joining what could be a once-in-a-generation, moneymaking moment on Wall Street.” The June 1, 2026 article entitled " Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/technology/anthropic-ipo.html) included these comments from Reporter Mike Isaac:
With its I.P.O. filing, Anthropic is expected to be among three high-profile companies preparing to go public this year, along with the rocket company SpaceX and OpenAI, which started the A.I. boom in 2022 with its ChatGPT chatbot.
Their I.P.O.s, which would be among the biggest ever, could create a tsunami of investment and employee wealth, and mint the world’s first trillionaire in Elon Musk, who owns about 50 percent 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. SpaceX’s I.P.O. is expected this month, and OpenAI has been preparing to file in the coming weeks.
An I.P.O. filing also ratchets up Anthropic’s competition with OpenAI. Last week, Anthropic officially passed OpenAI as the world’s highest-flying A.I. start-up with $65 billion in new financing that valued it at $900 billion before the inclusion of the new capital. OpenAI’s last valuation was $730 billion.
In a statement, Anthropic said the filing “gives us the option to go public” after a review of its paperwork by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company did not provide details about the timing or size of an I.P.O. and said the deal would “depend on market conditions and other factors.” With the filing on Monday, a public offering could happen as soon as this fall.
Among the three companies racing to go public, Anthropic is the youngest and fastest growing, thanks in large part to its A.I. tools for automatically writing computer code. Last week, Anthropic said its revenue run rate, which is its expected revenue for the year based on its current performance, crossed $47 billion in May. It is unclear if the company is profitable.
Stay tuned for the I.P.O.!