Anthropic sets IPO range valuing it at up to $1.4 trillion amid AI stock sell-off
The company announced a price range of $70 to $78 a share, a range that would value the AI lab at up to $1.4 trillion on a fully diluted basis, but is well short of the $2 trillion that some news outlets had reported just weeks ago.
Key points
- Anthropic could raise up to $63 billion in an IPO expected to take place next week.
- Anthropic said no current model has crossed it and that it is considering policy changes “to keep humans in control of frontier model development.” This story was originally featured on Fortune.com.
- The market nerves around the midterms and Nvidia’s future add to earlier fears—often voiced by Anthropic—about the safety, and potential existential risk, of the AI systems the labs are building.
Anthropic’s prospectus also carries a fresh warning about the company’s progress toward recursive self-improvement (RSI)— t he point at which AI systems become capable enough to substantially build their own successors, with each generation speeding up development of the next.
Additional details
- Tuesday’s amended filing adds that Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate reached about $81 billion as of the end of October, up from roughly $71 billion in late September.
- The Nasdaq fell 5.5% last week and erased nearly $2.5 trillion in market value in a single session, as some analysts warned the market was tipping into correction territory.
- Anthropic is selling 825 million shares on the Nasdaq under the ticker “ANT,” which would raise up to $64.4 billion at the top of the range.
- Seven strategic partners, including Google and Nvidia, have also agreed to buy $26 billion of non-voting stock at the IPO price.
- Following the Democrats’ major gains in the midterms, the AI sector has faced a sharp sell-off as fears over stricter regulation and tougher scrutiny, especially around the data center buildout, have spooked investors.
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