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AI giant Anthropic plans to sell shares in US as valuation nears $1tn

BBC News · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 839 words · By Kali Hays
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AI giant Anthropic plans to sell shares in US as valuation nears $1tn Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has revealed its plans to go public in the US, a move which would allow people to buy and sell its shares on the stock market.

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Topics 3

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What happened

AI giant Anthropic plans to sell shares in US as valuation nears $1tn Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has revealed its plans to go public in the US, a move which would allow people to buy and sell its shares on the stock market.

Why it matters

The company behind chatbot Claude said on Monday it had filed paperwork with the US authorities in order to make an initial public offering (IPO) this year.

Common ground

Anthropic said the price and number of shares to be offered "have not yet been set".

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Anthropic has been fighting this year, too, with the US Department of Defense (DoD).”
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Wikipedia and other web sources confirm a dispute between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense starting in January 2026 regarding product use.
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web search NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 26, 2026 ... Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 26, 2026 ... To now threaten to designate Anthropic as a "Supply Chain Risk" or to invoke the Defense Production Act is a completely unnecessary and ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gregallen2_woke-up-early-to-j…
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Claim 2: “The company has told investors that it expects to turn a profit in the first half of this year”
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Claim 3: “Claude was the first modern AI chatbot and model to be deployed on US government networks that were classified”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny whether Claude was the first modern AI chatbot deployed on classified US government networks.
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Claim 4: “Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei created the firm after leaving OpenAI”
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Both Wikipedia and multiple news sources (Axios, HyperAI) confirm that Dario Amodei co-founded Anthropic after leaving his role as VP of Research at OpenAI.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniela Amodei (born 1987) is an American entrepreneur and the president of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company known for its Claude series of large language models. She co-founded Anth…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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Claim 5: “Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth banned any US agency from using Claude.”
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Claim 6: “Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has revealed its plans to go public in the US”
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Multiple independent sources (Reuters, and two other web search results) confirm Anthropic's plans to go public in the US.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Anthropic said Monday it has submitted a confidential filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public ...
https://abc7news.com/post/anthropic-races-public-offering-de…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... Harrison Rolfes, a research analyst a Pitchbook, added Anthropic's IPO "will be the most scrutinized public offering in tech history", with ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k203kzp10o
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... OpenAI targets up to $1 trillion valuation, IPO could come as early as September, source says · Rival Anthropic and SpaceX also pursue IPOs, ...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-files-us-ipo-after…
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Claim 7: “Neither SpaceX nor OpenAI are currently profitable.”
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Claim 8: “The company behind chatbot Claude said on Monday it had filed paperwork with the US authorities in order to make an initial public offering (IPO) this year.”
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Three independent web sources confirm that Anthropic filed confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC on or around June 1, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michel Krieger (born March 4, 1986) is a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Kevin Systrom, and served as its chief technology officer (CTO) until 2018. …
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Claim 9: “OpenAI is also reportedly considering going public this year.”
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Multiple web search results indicate OpenAI is considering an IPO, with some sources mentioning filings as soon as late 2025 or 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 30, 2025 ... OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as ... Earlier this year, AI cloud company CoreWeave went public at a ...
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-jugg…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI has committed to over $1.4tn in data-centre and infrastructure spending over the coming years. It expects losses of $14bn in 2026 alone, and ...
https://www.cmcmarkets.com/en-gb/ipo-trading/open-ai-ipo
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web search NEUTRAL — 7 days ago ... FutureSearch forecasts Anthropic will IPO around December 15, 2026 at a $1.10 trillion median first-day market cap, with OpenAI following ...
https://futuresearch.ai/anthropic-openai-ipo-dates-valuation…
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Claim 10: “Anthropic, founded just five years ago, recently raised money from private investors that valued the company at more than $965bn (£717bn)”
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Multiple web sources report a Series H funding round that pushed Anthropic's valuation to $965 billion. Wikipedia confirms the company was founded in 2021, which aligns with the 'five years ago' claim (relative to the 2026 date of the evidence).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In philosophy of science and cosmology, the anthropic principle (also known as the observation selection effect) is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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Claim 11: “President Donald Trump said the US would "never do business with [Anthropic] again"”
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Claim 12: “the DoD late last year insisted that Anthropic should accept contractual terms as part of a $200m deal, which stated government agencies could use AI tools like Claude for "any lawful use"”
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Web search results describe a conflict over contractual terms for a deal where the DoD wanted 'any lawful use' of Claude, leading to a dispute over restrictive terms.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 ... FT Exclusive: Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations despite a legal ...
https://www.facebook.com/financialtimes/posts/ft-exclusive-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 5, 2026 ... §3252 can only extend to the use of Claude as part of [DOD] contracts—it cannot affect how contractors use Claude to serve other customers." ...
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF13217
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 27, 2026 ... ... Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology. ... allow their models to be used "for all lawful ...
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic…
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Claim 13: “OpenAI's most recent valuation of $852bn”
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Five independent cross-references (including CNBC, NYPost, and NBC Washington) consistently report OpenAI's most recent valuation at $852 billion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially contro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sora was a text-to-video model and social media app developed by OpenAI. Using artificial intelligence, the model generated short video clips based on prompts, and could also extend existing short vid…
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Claim 14: “Anthropic then launched legal action against the government.”
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Claim 15: “Google's owner Alphabet has revealed plans to raise $80bn to spend on AI.”
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Three independent web sources report that Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion through stock sales to fund AI infrastructure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — I (minuscule: i) is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google AI is a subsidiary of Google DeepMind dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). It was announced at Google I/O 2017 by CEO Sundar Pichai. This division has been expanded to its reach with rese…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
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