Why Anthropic has the edge over OpenAI in IPO race

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · Jun 09, 2026 · 917 words · By Nicolas Martin

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Why Anthropic has the edge over OpenAI in IPO race June 9, 2026It has all the ingredients of a Hollywood script: two ambitious tech nerds locked in a high-stakes battle for dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), complete with surprising plot twists.

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Techniques found 3

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What happened

Why it matters

Take Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, who recently called on the AI industry to pause development, warning that humanity could lose control of the technology.

Common ground

What made the statement remarkable was its timing: just days earlier, his company had filed paperwork with the US securities regulator, the SEC, to launch an IPO — a first public sale of company shares on the stock market.

Perspective signals

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

Follow-up questions

What new context would change how readers understand this Financial Market Valuation story?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Anthropic is currently valued at $965 billion (€836 billion)?
How does this story connect Financial Market Valuation with AI Ethics vs Profit over the next few days?

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Name Calling / Labeling 60% confidence

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Why it matters: Recognizing name calling / labeling helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 70% confidence

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 20 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 is currently valued at $965 billion (€836 billion)”

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Multiple independent sources confirm Anthropic's post-money valuation reached $965 billion following a $65B Series H funding round in May 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes and mass domestic surve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Named after mathematician and scientist Claude Shannon, Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in Marc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)

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Claim 2: “his company had filed paperwork with the US securities regulator, the SEC, to launch an IPO”

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Multiple independent web sources report that Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC on June 1, 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... It has not yet reported filing initial IPO paperwork with the SEC. SpaceX was valued at $800 billion last year, but its value grew to $1.25 ...
https://abc7news.com/post/anthropic-races-public-offering-de…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... "This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review," Anthropic said in a statement. "The proposed initial public offering ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/anthropic-files-co…

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Claim 3: “When OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit”

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Claim 4: “OpenAI leans on Microsoft, which holds a stake in the company”

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Claim 5: “OpenAI software is now set to be deployed by the Pentagon”

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Claim 6: “Siemens, Germany's largest publicly listed company, is valued at around $230 billion”

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While Wikipedia confirms Siemens is a large German company, the provided search results do not contain its current total market valuation of $230 billion; they only mention specific contracts and spin-offs.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siemens AG (German pronunciation: [ˈziːməns] or [-mɛns]) is a German multinational company. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siemens is a German engineering and technology conglomerate founded by Werner von Siemens. Siemens may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_(disambiguation)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siemens Venture is a type of locomotive-hauled passenger railroad car built by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. The cars are derived from the Siemens Viaggio Comfort cars used in Europe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Venture

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Claim 7: “Research firm Gartner estimates that global AI spending will exceed $2.5 trillion this year alone”

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The search results provide general information about Gartner and AI bubbles, but no specific report or figure stating that Gartner estimates global AI spending will exceed $2.5 trillion this year.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the context of generative artificial intelligence, AI agents (also referred to as compound AI systems , agentic AI, or AI tools) are a class of intelligent agents that can pursue goals, use tools, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_agent

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI bubble is a theorised stock market bubble growing since 2025 amid the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that is affecting the broader economy. Sp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or other forms of data. Thes…
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Claim 8: “OpenAI has raised $186 billion since its founding”

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The provided evidence mentions specific funding rounds (e.g., $122 billion in one round), but does not provide a cumulative total of $186 billion raised since founding.

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web search 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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web search NEUTRAL — r/OpenAI: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of…
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/

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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 30, 2022 · We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challen…
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/

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Claim 9: “In 2021, Dario Amodei left OpenAI”

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Claim 10: “Anthropic is forecast to generate $47 billion in revenue this year”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a revenue forecast of $47 billion for Anthropic.

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Claim 11: “Anthropic draws on Amazon and has recently also tapped Elon Musk's Colossus data center”

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Claim 12: “OpenAI's projected $30 billion [revenue]”

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Claim 13: “Over 1,000 enterprise customers are each spending more than $1 million annually on Anthropic”

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Claim 14: “ChatGPT's owner only announced its own plans to go public a week later”

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Multiple sources report OpenAI filed for an IPO on June 8, 2026, which is exactly one week after Anthropic's June 1 filing.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 8, 2026 ... OpenAI's confidential filing lands days before SpaceX is set to go public and a week after Anthropic announced its confidential disclosure ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/openai-confidentially-files-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... OpenAI said on Monday it had made a confidential filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd958eqg1n5o

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... June 8 (Reuters) - OpenAI confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering recently, the ChatGPT maker said on Monday, joining rival ...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-files-us-ipo-after…

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Claim 15: “Anthropic has raised $127 billion”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a total funding amount of $127 billion for Anthropic.

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Claim 16: “OpenAI at $852 billion (€738 billion)”

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Multiple sources, including Reuters, confirm OpenAI's post-money valuation at $852 billion as of March/April 2026.

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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 — 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 — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_(text-to-video_model)

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Claim 17: “Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, who recently called on the AI industry to pause development”

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Multiple web search results explicitly state that Dario Amodei did NOT call for a pause on AI development, describing such a position as the 'opposite' of Anthropic's policy. He called for stronger regulation and government intervention instead.

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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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Claim 18: “ChatGPT, which boasts over 900 million weekly users”

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Claim 19: “The Pentagon responded by classifying Anthropic as a "supply chain security risk"”

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Claim 20: “Claude, Anthropic's AI, would not be used for mass surveillance of American citizens or autonomous weapons systems”

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