Anthropic Files for Nasdaq Listing, Projected to Be Largest in History

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Anthropic, the developer of the generative AI Claude, has become the first major AI model company to apply for a listing on the U.S. Nasdaq. Both its corporate valuation and the amount of capital to be raised are projected to be the largest in history, drawing attention for detailing the risks of AI extensively in its public offering filing.

Reporting from New York, this is correspondent Kim Hyunwoo.

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Anthropic submitted its registration statement for an initial public offering (IPO) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26 local time.

Stepping ahead of OpenAI, it has entered the IPO process as the first AI model development company to do so.

The registration statement did not specifically present the number of shares to be offered or the expected price range.

U.S. media outlets reported that Anthropic's corporate valuation could reach up to 2 trillion dollars, or approximately 2,700 trillion won.

Projections indicate that the company will raise 100 billion dollars, or about 133 trillion won, through this listing—surpassing the previous record of 75 billion dollars set by SpaceX last June.

Anthropic's revenue for the first half of this year stood at 16.2 billion dollars, or approximately 21 trillion won, marking a growth of more than 14 times compared to a year earlier.

With stock trading scheduled to begin as early as next month, Anthropic discussed the risks of AI in detail within its securities filing.

It warned that if AI is used for malicious purposes or goes out of control, it could threaten all of humanity, noting the possibility of causing catastrophic risks.

[Bernard Condon / AP Reporter: It even includes risks such as authoritarian governments oppressing citizens using AI, or terrorists creating chemical and biological weapons.]

Anthropic also specified its ongoing legal disputes with the government as a major business risk, adding that because of this, companies selling products and services to the U.S. government might stop using Anthropic's AI.

Following the news of Anthropic's IPO filing, expectations for AI were rekindled, causing all three major New York stock indices, including Nasdaq, to close higher overnight.

(Photo: Lee Hee-hoon | Video Editing: Kim Jin-won)
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