Anthropic aims to match or beat SpaceX's record IPO

Anthropic wants its stock debut to be the biggest one ever. Bloomberg reported Thursday that the company is targeting an IPO big enough to match or beat SpaceX's record raise. That record sits around $75 billion. Anthropic has already filed confidential paperwork with securities regulators. A public filing could follow within weeks.

That's a striking ambition for a company that didn't exist until 2021. Anthropic makes the Claude chatbot and competes with OpenAI for corporate customers. Its last private funding round, in May, valued it near $965 billion. Wall Street investors are reportedly lining up anyway. They're chasing AI exposure the same way they chased SpaceX's rocket business. None of these numbers are locked in yet. Anthropic hasn't confirmed a raise target publicly. IPO plans often shrink before the actual sale.

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Will investors still want in once Anthropic opens its books? Going public means disclosing real financials for the first time. That includes how much money the company burns training and running its AI models. If those numbers spook investors, 'biggest IPO ever' could turn into just a big IPO. Anthropic hasn't said publicly when it plans to file. Reports point to sometime this month.