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Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190B-$200B 2028 revenue forecast: sources

Nypost · · 806 words · By Reuters
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What to know about Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190B-$200B 2028 revenue forecast: sources

As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future than it commonly does to put a price on the AI company, valuing it based on how much revenue it could generate two years from now.

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What happened

As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future than it commonly does to put a price on the AI company, valuing it based on how much revenue it could generate two years from now.

Why it matters

Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly $190 billion to $200 billion, according to two people familiar with the company’s financials, a figure that has not previously been reported.

Common ground

The projection dwarfs the $47 billion revenue “run rate,” reflecting the firm’s current pace of business, that the company publicized as recently as May, and shows the scale of growth investors are being asked to underwrite.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “on track for its first quarterly operating profit of $559 million”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a quarterly operating profit of $559 million.
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Claim 2: “SpaceX projections extended as far as 2029 before the company went public at a record valuation in June”
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Evidence confirms SpaceX went public in June 2026 and that projections extended to 2029 were used in the process.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and provider of space transportation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence services, he…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX. They are currently a part of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, and were formerly used on the Falcon 1. Merlin engines use RP-1 an…
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Claim 3: “SpaceX and Cloudflare both trade at 41.6 times expected 2026 revenue, LSEG data show”
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Claim 4: “Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly $190 billion to $200 billion”
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Multiple independent web sources report that Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly $190 billion to $200 billion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI bubble is a concept that asserts there is a stock market bubble growing since 2025 amid the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that is affecting t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-traine…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
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Claim 5: “Anthropic has projected revenue of at least $10.9 billion for the second quarter of 2026”
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Claim 6: “rising to more than $47 billion by May”
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Multiple sources confirm the revenue run rate rose to over $47 billion by May.
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web search NEUTRAL — The $47 billion revenue line is a vendor-stated, annualized run-rate that multiple major outlets have independently reported.For Anthropic, it cements a remarkable run: most valuable AI startup, run-r…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic's annualised revenue run-rate rose from about $87 million in January 2024 to roughly $1 billion by December 2024, around $9 billion by the end of 2025, $14 billion in February 2026, $19 bill…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate crossed $47 billion in May, ahead of OpenAI’s $40 billion. The company is projecting $190 to $200 billion in revenue by 2028. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and…
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Claim 7: “Backers of Cerebras Systems cited 2028 revenue expectations in the runup to the firm’s IPO this year”
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Two separate web search results mention that Cerebras Systems cited 2028 revenue expectations during its IPO process.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cerebras Systems Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, develops semiconductors, supercomputers, and related software to power artificial intelligence deep-learning applications such as inferen…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-traine…
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web search NEUTRAL — Backers of Cerebras Systems cited 2028 revenue expectations in the runup to the firm’s IPO this year, and SpaceX projections extended as far as 2029 before the company went public at a record valuatio…
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Claim 8: “The company’s revenue run rate grew more than 10-fold annually in each of the three years through early 2026”
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Claim 9: “the $47 billion revenue “run rate,” reflecting the firm’s current pace of business, that the company publicized as recently as May”
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Multiple sources confirm that Anthropic's revenue run rate reached approximately $47 billion by May.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, a series of proprietary large language…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models (LLMs) 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 d…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic. It is the most powerful series of models in the Claude family. The first model in the series was Claude Mythos Preview. Anthr…
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Claim 10: “Anthropic’s revenue run rate was about $9 billion at the end of 2025, according to the company”
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Multiple sources explicitly state that Anthropic's revenue run rate was approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic’s revenue run rate has more than doubled since last summer, and hit over $9 billion at the end of 2025, according to people familiar with the details, all of whom asked not to be identified …
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web search NEUTRAL — "Demand from Claude customers has accelerated in 2026. Our run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion—up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025," Anthropic said in a blog post.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July, CNBC confirmed on Monday, a sevenfold increase from a year ago.
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Claim 11: “Palantir is valued at 53 times this year’s expected revenue”
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