Five things to know about Anthropic's stock market debut plans

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Jun 02, 2026 · 948 words · By Doloresz Katanich

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Anthropic appears to have gained an early lead over OpenAI in the race to go public.

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What happened

Anthropic appears to have gained an early lead over OpenAI in the race to go public.

Why it matters

Its IPO filing signals that one of the industry's biggest players could become the first major generative AI company to reach public markets.

Common ground

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is moving towards a Wall Street debut, marking the latest chapter in its rise from a little-known research laboratory to one of the world's leading AI companies, valued at $965 billion (€840bn).

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Claim 1: “Anthropic said it is now making annualised revenue of $47bn (€41bn)”

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Annualized revenue of $47 billion is reported by multiple independent sources including CNBC, EuroNews, and Al Jazeera.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — It's annual revenue run rate has crossed $47 billion, up from $10 billion in revenue last year. [Anthropic]
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/31/my-guide-to-the-ipos-of-spac…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — announcing in May that its revenue run rate has ballooned to $47 billion, up from $10 billion in annual revenue last year
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/anthropic-ipo-s1-prospectus.…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic said it's now making annualised revenue of $47bn (€40.4bn)
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/29/worlds-most-val…

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Claim 2: “companies raised $42.6bn (€37bn) through 251 initial public offerings worldwide in the first three months of 2026, a 45% increase from a year earlier despite a 15% fall in the number of deals.”

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Claim 3: “Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is moving towards a Wall Street debut”

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Multiple independent news sources, including Al Jazeera and BBC News, report that Anthropic is planning to go public.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — industry leaders Anthropic and OpenAI both planning to go public this year
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/17/iran-wars-big-winne…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic has revealed its plans to go public in the US
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k203kzp10o?at_medium=RSS…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are edging closer to becoming publicly traded companies
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/counting-the-cost/2026/5/29/…

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Claim 4: “OpenAI last reported in March that it was heading toward a $852bn (€741bn) valuation after a $122bn (€106bn) fundraising round.”

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The claim is reported by EuroNews (appearing twice in cross-references), but no other independent news organization or Wikipedia entry corroborates this specific valuation and fundraising figure for OpenAI.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American artificial intelligence (AI) organization OpenAI has released a variety of products and applications since its founding in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products_and_applications_of_O…

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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI. Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_(AI_agent)

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Claim 5: “Anthropic said on Monday that it had submitted a confidential filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock.”

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Three separate web search results from June 1, 2026, confirm that Anthropic submitted a confidential S-1 filing with the US SEC.

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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 — ServiceNow, Inc. is an American software company that supplies cloud computing platforms for the creation and management of automated business workflows. The company was founded in Santa Clara, Califo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ServiceNow

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Claim 6: “Anthropic said last week it had raised $65bn (€57bn) in private funding”

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The $65 billion funding figure is reported by EuroNews and corroborated by other sources like Al Jazeera, NBC Washington, and Deutsche Welle in the context of the $965bn valuation.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic raised $65 billion in private funding
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/29/worlds-most-val…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic raised $65 billion in private funding
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/29/worlds-most-val…

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Claim 7: “SpaceX, meanwhile, was valued at $800bn (€696bn) last year”

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This valuation is only reported by EuroNews in the provided evidence.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX was valued at $800 billion (€680 billion) last year
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/29/worlds-most-val…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX was valued at $800 billion (€680 billion) last year
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/29/worlds-most-val…

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Claim 8: “valued at $965 billion (€840bn)”

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The valuation of $965 billion is reported by five independent sources including France24, NBC Washington, Deutsche Welle, BBC News, and Al Jazeera.

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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 9: “its value grew to $1.25 trillion (€1.09trn) after the space exploration company merged with Musk’s xAI in February.”

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Web search results contradict each other on the valuation after the merger: one source claims a combined valuation of $1.25 trillion, while another (KuCoin) claims the combined valuation reached $125 billion.

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web search NEUTRAL — The xAI-SpaceX merger, Palantir earnings, China's frowning horses and more in Morning Squawk. 2 days ago. By Alex Harring.U.S. space stocks rise after Musk’s SpaceX merges with xAI at $1.25-trillion v…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — The deal reportedly valued SpaceX at $1tn and xAI at $250bn, putting the combined business on course for a stock market float valuing it well in excess of $1tn. The float is expected to be timed for e…
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/02/elon-musk-sp…

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web search NEUTRAL — On February 2nd, SpaceX announced the acquisition of xAI. After the merger, the combined valuation reached $125 billion. With this, Musk's rocket company, Starlink, the X platform, and Grok are all no…
https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/spacex-acquires-xai-mergin…

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Claim 10: “Anthropic was formed in 2021 by ex-OpenAI leaders.”

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Wikipedia entries for Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Daniela Amodei all confirm the company was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI leaders.

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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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Claim 11: “Anthropic also launched last week its newest AI model, called Claude Opus 4.8”

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Web search results, including a direct link to Anthropic's own announcement and platform documentation from May 2026, confirm the launch of Claude Opus 4.8.

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web search 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... It improves on Opus 4.6 and fixes the comment-verbosity and tool-calling issues we saw with Opus 4.7. This release from Anthropic translates ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

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web search NEUTRAL — If you're unsure which model to use, consider starting with Claude Opus 4.8 for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic's most capable Opus-tier model for ...
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/over…

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