Report: Anthropic May Publicly File for IPO as Early as This Friday
According to Yahoo Finance, citing three people familiar with the matter, Anthropic may publicly file its S-1 prospectus as early as this Friday, a key step toward what could become the largest IPO in history. In June of this year, Anthropic had already confidentially filed a draft IPO application, and Wall Street expects it could raise up to $100 billion at a valuation of as much as $2 trillion. In the first half of this year, Anthropic's revenue was $16.3 billion, with a net loss exceeding $80 billion; other reports say its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, and it was profitable on an adjusted basis.
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The report discloses Anthropic's IPO timeline along with its first-half revenue and loss figures, which can be used to gauge market sentiment toward the AI boom.
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Moving toward the "largest IPO in history," reports say Anthropic may publicly file its listing application as early as this Friday
2026-10-22 10:17 IT Home - Qingyuan
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IT Home, October 22 news: On the 21st local time, Yahoo Finance, citing three people familiar with the matter, reported that Anthropic may publicly submit its S-1 prospectus as early as this Friday, taking a key step toward what is expected to be the largest IPO in history.
Anthropic's listing plan has attracted much attention, and its scale is expected to exceed SpaceX's IPO in June this year. As investors' concerns about massive spending in the AI industry intensify, the market widely believes that Anthropic's listing will be an important test of how much interest investors still have in the AI boom.
In June this year, Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft IPO application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the rules, companies using the confidential filing process must make their application documents public at least 15 calendar days before the formal investor roadshow begins.
If the prospectus is made public smoothly, Anthropic will be one step closer to listing in November, but the final offering timing will still be affected by factors such as market conditions. At that time, ordinary investors will also be able to learn its specific financial data and potential risks for the first time.
Anthropic has spent billions of dollars building AI infrastructure to support the training and operation of the Claude series of models. In addition to cooperating with Google and Amazon, the company also rents GPU computing power from SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center.
In the first half of this year, Anthropic's revenue reached $16.3 billion (IT Home note: about 109.036 billion yuan at current exchange rates), with a net loss of more than $80 billion (about 535.146 billion yuan at current exchange rates). Wall Street expects Anthropic may raise up to $100 billion through the IPO (about 668.933 billion yuan at current exchange rates), corresponding to a valuation of up to $2 trillion (about 13.38 trillion yuan at current exchange rates).
Other reports say Anthropic told investors at its San Francisco office last week that third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion (about 112.381 billion yuan at current exchange rates), higher than $11.5 billion in the second quarter (about 76.927 billion yuan at current exchange rates). On an adjusted basis, the company also achieved profitability.
A person familiar with the matter said that Anthropic's listing scale is so huge that the choice of when to launch the IPO will also have an important impact on other companies preparing to go public in the coming weeks.
Competitor OpenAI had originally been expected to launch an IPO this year, but is now expected to list in early 2027.