AI: Anthropic makes three filed for IPO take-offs. AI-RTZ #1105
It’s the filing race for mega-AI IPO away in earnest this year. SpaceX/xAI has filed, OpenAI is rumored to have filed or imminently filed. And as expected. Anthropic has now raced to file confidentially. Joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX/xAI and OpenAI in recent days.
Looks like my former Firm Goldman Sachs is left-leading all three IPOs with separate internal teams. Exceptional times indeed.
Three companies each with trillion dollar plus in expected market caps. Long expected, but now the cakes are being baked this AI Tech Wave.
The New York Times lays it out in “Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.”:
“The artificial intelligence company has seen explosive growth over the last year thanks largely to new technology that can automatically write computer code.”
“Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed on Monday for an initial public offering, becoming the latest to join what could be a once-in-a-generation, moneymaking moment on Wall Street.”
“Anthropic’s I.P.O. is expected to be among a trio of high-profile companies preparing to go public this year, along with the rocket company SpaceX and OpenAI, which started the A.I. boom in 2022 with its ChatGPT chatbot.”
“Last week, Anthropic officially passed its rival OpenAI as the world’s highest-flying A.I. start-up. Anthropic said it had raised $65 billion in financing that valued it at $900 billion before the inclusion of the new capital, a deal that put it ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion.”
“Its I.P.O., which would be among the biggest ever along with SpaceX and OpenAI, could create a tsunami of investment and employee wealth, and mint the world’s first trillionaire in Elon Musk, who owns about 50 percent of SpaceX. The public offerings could also flood the nonprofit world with new money, since Anthropic and OpenAI have both pledged a large part of their shares to charity.”
Lots of questions remain this AI Tech Wave. Which will all be better answered as the details of these filings become available for both Anthropic and OpenAI in the coming months.
By then SpaceX/xAI s likely to be trading in the public markets, which will provide additional information on investor demand for these IPOs.
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