Anthropic confidentially files for IPO as it races OpenAI for public debut

Nypost · Jun 01, 2026 · 378 words · By Thomas Barrabi

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Anthropic confidentially files for IPO as it races OpenAI for public debut See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on GoogleAnthropic announced Monday that it has confidentially filed paperwork to go public as it scrambles to beat top rival OpenAI to a Wall Street debut.

Common ground

The company, led by CEO Dario Amodei, filed its required S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission just days after it raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion – making it more valuable than OpenAI.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “SpaceX is the parent company of Musk’s xAI, best known as the creator of the “Grok” chatbot.”

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Both The Guardian and NY Post (referencing a SpaceX prospectus) identify SpaceX as the parent company of xAI.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX is the parent company of Musk’s own artificial intelligence company, xAI.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/spacex-pu…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — The multiple investigations into xAI’s creation and dissemination of sexually abusive imagery may lead the company to lose access to certain markets, parent company SpaceX warned in a prospectus revie…
https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/business/elon-musks-spacex-war…

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Claim 2: “Anthropic triggered alarms in April while warning that Mythos was too powerful to be released to the public because it had “found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.””

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources (including BBC and Anthropic's own Project Glasswing) confirm that in April 2026, Anthropic stated Mythos Preview found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in major OSs and browsers.

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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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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 — Claude Mythos is a large language model developed by Anthropic to find vulnerabilities in software. Anthropic has not officially released the model to the public, citing safety and misuse concerns. Re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos

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Claim 3: “The AI firm instead made Mythos available to a few dozen corporate partners as part of a pilot program”

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Web search results confirm that Anthropic limited the Mythos model to a few partner companies/corporate partners due to safety concerns.

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 · Anthropic is committing up to $100M in usage credits for Mythos Preview across these efforts, as well as $4M in direct donations to open-source ...
https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 7, 2026 · This System Card assesses the model's capabilities and reports many detailed safety evaluations. It covers tests relating to our Responsible ...
https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8d…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 · Anthropic has limited Mythos to a few partner companies because of concerns about what criminals or adversarial nations could do with it ...
https://www.facebook.com/bsindia/posts/anthropic-is-expandin…

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Claim 4: “OpenAI is said to be days away from its own confidential IPO filing”

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Multiple independent reports from CNBC and Al Jazeera state that OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO in the coming days or weeks.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — The ChatGPT creator [OpenAI] is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO as soon as Friday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/jim-cramers-top-10-things-to…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — OpenAI is preparing to file its confidential IPO prospectus in the coming days or weeks, CNBC has confirmed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-open-ai-startup-va…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus as soon as Friday
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-revenue-explosive-…

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Claim 5: “Anthropic has recently seen massive demand for its Claude chatbot following the unveiling of its much-hyped “Mythos” model.”

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Multiple independent sources (CNBC, Daily Maverick, The Hindu) confirm the release and existence of the 'Mythos' (or Mythos Preview) model.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — announcing a model called Claude Mythos Preview, which has advanced cybersecurity capabilities
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/anthropic-ipo-s1-prospectus.…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Earlier this month, Anthropic released an artificial intelligence model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities called Claude Mythos to a limited group of technology companies, including Google and A…
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/this-cybersecurity-stock-has…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — It had been let loose in the wild by Anthropic as a testing exercise for its new model, called Mythos Preview, which had not yet been released
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-12-crossed-w…

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Claim 6: “Anthropic announced Monday that it has confidentially filed paperwork to go public”

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Multiple independent news sources (Al Jazeera, CNBC, Deutsche Welle) confirm that Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on Monday.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/6/1/ai-giant-anthropi…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic... said on Monday that it's confidentially filed for an IPO.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/microsoft-and-google-take-on…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, said it had filed confidentially for an initial public offering.
https://www.dw.com/en/alphabet-plans-80-billion-stock-sale-a…

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Claim 7: “The company, led by CEO Dario Amodei, filed its required S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission”

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Web search results from June 2026 explicitly state that Anthropic, led by CEO Dario Amodei, filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC on June 1, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a neural network trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can typically generate, summarize, transla…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman atte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

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Claim 8: “Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is aiming to raise a record $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation in its own public debut.”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms the SpaceX IPO occurred on June 12, 2026, as the largest ever IPO with a valuation of approximately $1.77 trillion (close to the $1.75 trillion mentioned), raising $75 billion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — X.AI LLC, doing business as xAI, is a subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX working in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media. xAI's flagship products are the gener…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)

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Claim 9: “it raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion”

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Multiple web search results confirm Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a post-money valuation of $965 billion.

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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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