Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO Under Ticker ANT
Anthropic filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT"; the offering size, price range and listing date have not yet been announced. The prospectus shows 2025 revenue of $4.585 billion and a net loss of $41.965 billion; in the first half of 2026, revenue rose to $16.286 billion, a 13-fold year-over-year increase, and adjusted operating profit turned positive at $1.6 billion. As of the end of June 2026, it had more than 6,000 customers paying over $100,000 annually, and its confirmed future minimum compute leasing payments total approximately $417 billion.
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Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO Under Ticker "ANT"
2026-10-26 21:29 IT Home - Haomiao
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IT Home, October 26 news: On October 26, artificial intelligence startup Anthropic submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, planning an initial public offering of Class A common stock and applying to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT." The offering size, price range, and listing date have not yet been announced.
The prospectus discloses that the company's performance is showing rapid growth: 2025 revenue was $4.585 billion (IT Home note: approximately RMB 30.616 billion at current exchange rates), with a net loss of $41.965 billion (approximately RMB 280.219 billion at current exchange rates); in the first half of 2026, revenue soared to $16.286 billion (approximately RMB 108.749 billion at current exchange rates), a 13-fold year-over-year surge. Although the net loss for the period widened to $80.748 billion (approximately RMB 539.19 billion at current exchange rates), the operating loss narrowed sharply to $693 million (approximately RMB 4.627 billion at current exchange rates), and adjusted operating profit turned positive at $1.6 billion (approximately RMB 10.684 billion at current exchange rates). The company explained that revenue expansion and optimized compute operating efficiency drove improvement in the core business, and the massive book loss mainly came from changes in the fair value of convertible notes, not actual operating expenses.
In addition, the company's customer base has expanded by leaps and bounds: as of the end of June 2026, paying customers with annual revenue of more than $100,000 (approximately RMB 668,000 at current exchange rates) exceeded 6,000, growing more than tenfold from 400 in just over a year. The continued rollout of new Claude series products drove both subscription and usage-based revenue higher.
Compute infrastructure will become the largest expenditure item going forward. As of the end of June this year, Anthropic held $112.4 billion (approximately RMB 750.545 billion at current exchange rates) in cash equivalents and $19.3 billion (approximately RMB 128.875 billion at current exchange rates) in short-term investments, giving it ample reserves. At the same time, the company has signed massive long-term compute leasing agreements, with confirmed future minimum payments of approximately $417 billion (approximately RMB 2.78 trillion at current exchange rates); agreements still to be finalized will bring an additional $125 billion to $150 billion (approximately RMB 834.681 billion to RMB 1 trillion at current exchange rates) in spending for servers, data centers, and cloud resources, with payment periods spanning multiple years. The company made clear that it will continue to ramp up compute investment and rely on revenue and equity financing to support capital expenditures.