Anthropic Meets With Investors Ahead of Major IPO, Targeting October Listing

Anthropic, the developer of the artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude, has begun preliminary meetings with investors ahead of a major initial public offering (IPO).

Investment banks managing the listing, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group, and JPMorgan Chase, are arranging meetings between Anthropic executives and investors, Bloomberg and CNBC reported on July 15 (local time), citing sources.

This process, intended to gauge investor demand ahead of the IPO, suggests that Anthropic's preparations for going public are proceeding smoothly.

Anthropic is reportedly aiming to list as early as October.

If the listing is completed in the fall as planned, Anthropic will make its debut on the public market before its rival, OpenAI.

Within the AI industry, there is speculation that companies should list sooner to secure higher valuations, amid concerns that the AI boom could cool due to theories about a bubble or market peaks.

OpenAI initially aimed for an IPO this fall, but recent reports suggest the company is considering a plan to go public next year after raising its corporate valuation to over $1 trillion.

When Anthropic raised its Series H funding last May, it was valued at $965 billion (approximately 1,440 trillion won). However, industry experts expect its valuation to jump to over $1 trillion upon listing.

In fact, shares of Anthropic are already trading in the over-the-counter market at a valuation of around $1.2 trillion.

The U.S. stock market has recently seen a series of large-scale listings.

Starting with Cerebras, a developer of semiconductors for AI inference, in May, Elon Musk's space company SpaceX recorded the largest IPO in history last month. Following this, SK Hynix also successfully listed its American Depositary Receipts (ADR) earlier this month.

Some point out that there are still variables remaining for Anthropic's listing.

This is due to unresolved uncertainties regarding its relationship with the Donald Trump administration.

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently imposed an 18-day export control, citing national security reasons, which prohibited Anthropic from providing its top-tier AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, to foreign nationals.

Anthropic previously filed a lawsuit against the federal government in protest of being designated a supply chain risk company by the Department of Defense.

Anthropic did not respond to requests for comment regarding the listing.

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