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Anthropic files confidentially for IPO, setting up showdown with OpenAI
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO and could reach public markets before OpenAI, marking a major milestone in the race to commercialize frontier AI. The filing follows a massive funding round valuing Anthropic at $965 billion, reported revenue growth that may exceed a $50 billion annualized run rate by June, and growing enterprise adoption of Claude for coding, cybersecurity, and knowledge work. The IPO would give public investors direct exposure to one of the leading AI labs and signals that the AI industry is rapidly transitioning from venture-backed experimentation to public-market competition.
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