Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed on 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 I.P.O. is expected to be among a trio of 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.
Last week, Anthropic officially passed its rival OpenAI as the world’s highest-flying A.I. 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 I.P.O., 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 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.
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Cade Metz contributed reporting.
Mike Isaac is The Times’s Silicon Valley correspondent, based in San Francisco. He covers the world’s most consequential tech companies, and how they shape culture both online and offline.
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