Anthropic prepares for stock market listing as AI viability test
The Claude chatbot maker was founded five years ago by a group that left OpenAI following disagreements over AI development.
Anthropic is preparing for a stock market listing, a move that will test the long-term financial viability of artificial intelligence, according to reports from The Economic Times and The New Indian Express.
The company was launched in early 2021 by a group of former OpenAI employees who left in December 2020 after disagreements regarding how AI should be built.
Chief executive Dario Amodei and president Daniela Amodei led the breakaway. Dario Amodei previously ran the safety team and a team studying scaling laws at OpenAI.
The company's cofounders include chief science officer Jared Kaplan, researcher Chris Olah, chief architect Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown, and Jack Clark.
Anthropic's IPO filing identifies Amazon and Alphabet as two of its largest backers. Other investors include Microsoft, Nvidia, and the venture firm Founders Fund.
In May, the company raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation. Early funding also came from figures such as Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Jaan Tallinn.
The company has faced tension with the Pentagon. In February, President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to allow its chatbot, Claude, to be used for lethal autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance.
