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.

Claims checked 20

Techniques found 3

Topics 3

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Coverage gap: Low Left coverage

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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

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eFinder identified 3 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Name Calling / Labeling 70% 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 60% 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: “In 2021, Dario Amodei left OpenAI”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 2: “ChatGPT's owner only announced its own plans to go public a week later”

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While evidence confirms Anthropic's IPO filing, there is no evidence in the provided search results confirming that OpenAI announced plans to go public exactly one week later.

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

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Claim 4: “Claude, Anthropic's AI, would not be used for mass surveillance of American citizens or autonomous weapons systems”

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Claim 5: “Anthropic has raised $127 billion”

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This figure is only mentioned in the cross-reference from Deutsche Welle; no other independent sources in the provided evidence confirm this specific funding total.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic has raised $127 billion
https://www.dw.com/en/why-anthropic-has-the-edge-over-openai…

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Claim 6: “his company had filed paperwork with the US securities regulator, the SEC, to launch an IPO”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm 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 ... "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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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 7, 2026 ... On June 1, 2026, Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC — the first major AI lab to formally begin an IPO process.
https://www.digitalapplied.com/blog/anthropic-ipo-filing-202…

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Claim 7: “Siemens, Germany's largest publicly listed company, is valued at around $230 billion”

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Wikipedia confirms Siemens is a major German multinational and the largest engineering company in Europe, but the provided evidence does not specify its current market valuation as $230 billion or confirm it is the 'largest publicly listed company' in Germany by value.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siemens Healthineers is a German multinational company with specializing in medical technology and medical imaging. It was spun off from its parent company Siemens in 2017, which retains a 75% stake. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Healthineers

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siemens Mobile was a German mobile phone manufacturer and a division of Siemens AG. Siemens sold Siemens Mobile to the Taiwan-based BenQ in 2005, subsequently becoming BenQ-Siemens and succeeded by Gi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Mobile

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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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Claim 8: “OpenAI leans on Microsoft, which holds a stake in the company”

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Claim 9: “When OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit”

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Claim 10: “OpenAI software is now set to be deployed by the Pentagon”

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Claim 11: “OpenAI's projected $30 billion”

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Claim 12: “The Pentagon responded by classifying Anthropic as a 'supply chain security risk'”

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Claim 13: “Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, who recently called on the AI industry to pause development”

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Direct evidence from LessWrong states that Dario Amodei called pausing AI development the 'most extreme' version of an 'extreme position' and 'the opposite' of Anthropic's policy. Another source notes he believed China would not be a responsible actor in a pause.

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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 — 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 14: “Anthropic is currently valued at $965 billion (€836 billion)”

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The valuation of $965 billion is confirmed by Wikipedia and multiple news reports (Reuters and others) following a Series H funding round in May 2026.

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

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Multiple sources, including Forbes and Reuters, confirm OpenAI's 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 — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_(text-to-video_model)

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Claim 16: “Research firm Gartner estimates that global AI spending will exceed $2.5 trillion this year alone”

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Multiple independent sources cite Gartner's forecast that worldwide AI spending will reach approximately $2.52 trillion in 2026.

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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 — 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 — 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_AI

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Claim 17: “OpenAI has raised $186 billion since its founding”

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The claim appears only in the cross-reference (Deutsche Welle). Web search results for '186 billion' refer to Jensen Huang's net worth, not OpenAI's funding.

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web search NEUTRAL — Information on valuation, funding, cap tables, investors, and executives for OpenAI. Use the PitchBook Platform to explore the full profile.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/149504-14

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... https://bit.ly/4e4Ky0N Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sits on a net worth of approximately $186 billion, and has made multiple members of his board ...
https://www.facebook.com/FortuneMagazine/posts/-nvidia-ceo-j…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 16, 2026 ... Our scoop from last month confirmed: SpaceX is moving forward with its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor. Here's the VC takeaway: Thrive ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/natasha-mascarenhas-65862a106…

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Claim 18: “Anthropic is forecast to generate $47 billion in revenue this year”

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This revenue projection is only mentioned in the cross-reference from Deutsche Welle and is not corroborated by other provided sources.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic is forecast to generate $47 billion in revenue this year
https://www.dw.com/en/why-anthropic-has-the-edge-over-openai…

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Claim 19: “Over 1,000 enterprise customers are each spending more than $1 million annually on Anthropic”

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Claim 20: “ChatGPT, which boasts over 900 million weekly users”

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