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Anthropic outranks most IPOs in history
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, filed on Monday, discloses an expected $1.5 trillion valuation — third-largest in IPO history behind Saudi Aramco's $1.7 trillion and SpaceX's $1.8 trillion — alongside 1,300% six-month revenue growth and a $66.3 billion second-quarter loss. The company says the loss is largely attributable to repriced convertible debt tied to its rising enterprise valuation. The filing provides unusually detailed financial disclosure from a frontier AI lab ahead of what would be one of the largest listings on record, including revenue retention, compute commitments and accumulated deficit figures that are rarely visible for private AI developers. Anthropic reports roughly 900% net revenue retention, but its definition includes customers who paid as little as $1 over a year and excludes Pro and Max subscribers. It also expects to spend $265.6 billion on computational services over the next few years and warns in the filing that it does not expect revenue to keep growing at comparable rates; other coverage of the filing has cited first-half net loss figures in the $80 billion range.
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AI Stocks Selloff Puts Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Under Delay Pressure
Anthropic plans to launch its IPO in mid-November at a target valuation of up to $2 trillion, but a recent selloff in AI-related stocks and a narrowing listing window have made the timetable uncertain, BlockBeats reported on Oct. 24. Under SEC rules a company must publicly file its S-1 at least 15 days before starting its roadshow, meaning Anthropic would need to file by next week to complete a listing in late November. The filing deadline makes the next week a decisive checkpoint: missing it would push a record-sized AI listing past its targeted window. Prediction markets currently put roughly 80% odds on Anthropic listing before the end of the year. The report cites CoreWeave shares falling about 30% in two weeks and Micron down about 17% over the past month, reflecting rising concern about the sustainability of AI capital spending and financing capacity. Some market participants expect Anthropic to postpone the listing for a better environment, while analysts argue its pressing need for compute funding and a potentially harder private fundraising market may push it to proceed.