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Anthropic Eyes Record $2 Trillion IPO as AI Boom Accelerates

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$2tn+

RUMOURED IPO VALUATION

$65bn

SERIES H RAISED (MAY)

$47bn

RUN-RATE REVENUE

47x

REVENUE GROWTH SINCE EARLY 2025

Anthropic is reportedly weighing a public listing that could value the AI company at around $2 trillion or more as soon as October, according to sources cited by the Financial Times. If confirmed, the float would rank among the largest debuts in market history, arriving hot on the heels of SpaceX's own record-setting IPO earlier this year.

Record Valuation Expectations

The potential offering would be the second IPO this year to reset the record books, following SpaceX's debut at an estimated $1.77 trillion valuation — a figure that itself displaced Saudi Aramco's 2019 benchmark of roughly $1.7 trillion.

Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round in May, led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, which pushed its post-money valuation to roughly $965 billion. By the same month, the company's run-rate revenue had climbed past $47 billion — a nearly 47-fold jump from around $1 billion in annualised revenue in early 2025.

Investors briefed by the FT anticipate annualised revenue reaching between $100 billion and $120 billion by the close of 2026, implying more than tenfold growth across the year on the company's preferred forward-looking revenue metric.

"We may well be in bubble territory — it could be in its early stages, or about to burst."
— Robert Farago, Head of Strategic Asset Allocation, Hargreaves Lansdown

Frontier Model Performance

The valuation talk comes as Anthropic continues to lead most frontier-model benchmarks. Earlier this year the US government flagged the company as a supply-chain risk following a policy disagreement, though the episode appears to have had little bearing on its technical momentum.

CEO Dario Amodei addressed the dispute in March, stating that the company's objections were narrowly focused on fully-autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance rather than day-to-day operations.

Independent benchmarking platform Artificial Analysis currently ranks Claude Opus 5 (max) and Claude Opus 5 (xhigh) as the highest-intelligence models available, with Claude Fable 5 (with fallback) and Claude Opus 5 (high) close behind — placing four Anthropic models at the top of the leaderboard ahead of OpenAI, xAI and Moonshot's Kimi K3.

Bubble Concerns Grow

Not everyone is convinced the rally is sustainable. Analysts note that transformational technologies with unclear eventual winners, combined with rising volatility among top-performing stocks and a wave of retail and institutional demand for AI-linked IPOs, are classic ingredients of a market bubble.

Reuters reported in July that bonds tied to the AI boom have come under strain, driving up the cost of insuring debt issued by Oracle, NVIDIA and Apple. Surging demand for AI-linked credit default swaps may signal growing investor unease about when the vast sums flowing into AI infrastructure will actually pay off.

Key Takeaways

→Anthropic is reportedly eyeing a public listing valued at $2 trillion or more, potentially as early as October.
→A float at that scale would follow SpaceX's record $1.77tn IPO, itself the largest in history.
→Anthropic's May Series H raised $65bn at a $965bn post-money valuation.
→Run-rate revenue hit $47bn in May, up roughly 47x from early 2025 levels.
→Anthropic's models currently top independent frontier-AI benchmarks ahead of OpenAI, xAI and Kimi K3.
→Rising bond insurance costs on AI-linked firms like Oracle and NVIDIA point to growing investor caution about a possible bubble.

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