Anthropic, the maker of the artificial intelligence chatbot Claude, said Monday it has filed for an initial public offering that could mark a turning point in the AI boom.
The company announced that it has filed a registration draft with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned initial public offering of its common stock.
“This gives us the option to go public after completing SEC review,” the company said. “The proposed initial public offering is subject to market conditions and other factors.”
The move will determine whether the hype around the technology boom resonates with Wall Street investors.
This listing is one of the few listed companies that has the potential to rewrite the history of listings.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to raise $75 billion when it debuts this month at a target valuation of $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion, which would break the record held by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba when it raised $21.8 billion in its New York Stock Exchange debut in 2014.
Musk’s company said in a recent prospectus that it plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol SPCX.
Humankind’s rival OpenAI is also preparing to file for an IPO in the United States in the coming weeks, Reuters reported.
Anthropic has not disclosed the size or terms of the offer. The company announced last week that it had raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round at a post-money valuation of $965 billion.
This funding round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. Abu Dhabi technology investment firm MGX, which participated in the Series G funding round, also participated in the latest funding round.
Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, Anthropic has established itself as a dominant player in the AI space through its coding model. The company reports $47 billion in annual revenue from selling technology to people and businesses using Claude and doing other work on their behalf.
Anthropic also recently signed an agreement with SpaceX for access to graphics processing unit (GPU) capacity on its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 AI supercomputers.
As of February, the company was valued at $380 billion.
