Anthropic, Maker of Claude AI, Files for IPO in What Could Be One of Wall Street’s Biggest Listings

Mumbai, June 2: Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, filed confidentially for an initial public offering on Monday, joining a wave of major technology listings that could reshape global markets later this year.

The San Francisco-based company did not disclose a listing price, size or timeline, saying the offering would depend on market conditions. A public debut could happen as early as this autumn, following the SEC’s review of its paperwork.

The filing comes at a moment of significant momentum for Anthropic. The company’s revenue run rate crossed $47 billion in May, and it was valued at $900 billion last week after raising $65 billion in fresh financing officially surpassing OpenAI, whose last valuation stood at $730 billion, as the world’s most valuable AI start-up.

High Profile IPOs

Anthropic is one of three high-profile companies racing toward a public listing. SpaceX is expected to go public this month, and OpenAI is preparing its own filing in the coming weeks. Together, the three offerings would rank among the largest IPOs ever attempted, and could flood technology markets with new capital.

Unlike OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind, which have built a wide range of AI products including browsers, image generators and commerce tools, Anthropic has stayed focused on AI for software coding and enterprise business customers. That narrower strategy, which some once questioned, has proved commercially formidable. Claude Opus 4.5, released last autumn, drove a sharp acceleration in enterprise adoption and revenue growth.

“The coding focus is what makes this filing interesting,” said Shashi Bellamkonda of Info-Tech Research Group. “Anthropic didn’t try to be everything. That discipline is now a $47 billion run rate.”

Anthropic History

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and a group of researchers who had previously worked at OpenAI. The company has consistently emphasised AI safety as a core principle, which has helped it build a positive public image though it has also created friction. The Pentagon blocked Anthropic’s technology from its systems this year after the company sought to place limits on how military and intelligence agencies could use it.

The company also recently released Mythos, a model capable of identifying and fixing software security vulnerabilities, which has drawn the attention of US intelligence agencies and prompted visits by Amodei to the White House.

Anthropic’s investors include Amazon, Google, Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix, along with several major investment firms. A significant portion of the capital it has raised goes toward computing infrastructure, a major cost driver for AI companies. Anthropic has also recently struck a deal to use computing capacity at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis, which houses more than 220,000 AI chips.

For Indian technology companies and software professionals among the largest global users of AI coding tools the Anthropic IPO and the broader wave of AI listings will be worth watching closely as a barometer of where enterprise technology investment is headed.