Context: After the post-election tech selloff, investors told the WSJ Anthropic may need a significantly lower valuation, one saying closer to $1T.
From The Wall Street Journal: Sources: major investors are increasingly skeptical Anthropic's IPO can achieve a $1.5T valuation after a market selloff; one says it could be closer to $1T — The AI giant could need to set a significantly lower-than-expected valuation, investors say — Major investors are increasingly …
The range of $70 to $78 per share implies up to $1.404T fully diluted; SiliconANGLE puts the fundraising goal at $64B.
The Information tallies more than $300 billion of AI stock sold or priced this year, with about $100 billion more coming, and asks how much the market can absorb.
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Anthropic has filed for an IPO; the filing shows soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its safety mission.
Tunguz reads the S-1 as $4.6B of revenue growing 11.9-fold, a derived 40% gross margin, $974M of operating profit in Q2 and $637B of compute commitments.
Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.
