Anthropic applies for listing on Wall Street
After Space X, the company behind Claude also confidentially submits documents to go public
It had been in the air for weeks. Now, the move is concrete. And after SpaceX, another of the new biggies of the American tech world is accelerating towards Wall Street. The former startup Anthropic, known for its chatbot Claude considered by all to be the real competitor to OpenAI's ChatGpt, has announced that it has confidentially filed the documents for an IPO in the United States, effectively opening a new phase in the financial competition around the sector.
The deal comes at a time when markets are increasingly rewarding artificial intelligence-related companies, seen as the new engine of global technological transformation. In recent months, the sector has attracted unprecedented capital, fuelling increasingly intense competition for computational infrastructure, data centres, advanced semiconductors and specialised talent.
Returning to Anthropic, it must be said that the company founded by Daniela and Dario Amodei has not disclosed either the size of the offer or a possible placement valuation. However, the closest reference remains the private round completed a few days ago, when the company raised capital on a post-money valuation of around USD 965 billion. A figure that, at least on the private market, would place it ahead of OpenAI.
In any case, it seems quite possible that, like Space X, Anthropic could also arrive on Wall Street with a market cap that would immediately place it among the trillion dollar companies. A growth that, judging by the numbers alone, has been extremely rapid. Last February, Anthropic was valued at around $380 billion after a $30 billion financing. In just a few months, the valuation has almost tripled, confirming how much investors are betting on the ability of AI platforms to impact various sectors (starting with the software sector).
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI executives, has become one of the most closely watched companies in the AI ecosystem thanks to its Claude family of models and the heavy investment it has received from several large technology and financial companies. The company, which, like OpenAI, is headquartered in San Francisco, places great emphasis on the security and reliability of generative models, an element that has also become central to the regulatory debate in the US and Europe in recent months.
