Anthropic is targeting an IPO as early as October, with investment banks arranging preliminary investor communications

Odaily reports that AI model Claude developer Anthropic is advancing plans for a large-scale IPO. Underwriting banks including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase have arranged preliminary meetings between company management and investors to gauge institutional investor interest and investment scale. Anthropic is targeting a listing as early as October. If completed as planned, the company could enter the securities market ahead of competitor OpenAI. Anthropic raised $65 billion in its Series H financing in May, with a post-money valuation of $965 billion; its over-the-counter market valuation has reached approximately $1.2 trillion. Measures by the U.S. government still present variables.

The U.S. Department of War designated Anthropic as a national security "supply chain risk" enterprise in March, and Anthropic has sued the federal government over the measure. The U.S. Department of Commerce restricted foreign nationals' access to top-tier AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in June, lifting the export controls 18 days later.