Anthropic heads for IPO: ticker ANT and $16.3 billion in revenue
The maker of Claude filed an S-1 prospectus on Nasdaq. First-half revenue grew from $1.2B to $16.3B, and the company signed a compute deal with SpaceX worth up to $120.5B.
What the prospectus revealed
Anthropic filed Form S-1 with the US SEC for a primary offering of Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. The number of shares and price range are not yet set.
The most interesting number: revenue for the first half of 2026 reached $16.3 billion, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier — more than a thirteen-fold increase. The company was valued at roughly $965 billion in May 2026.
The race to the exchange: OpenAI vs. Anthropic
OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 back on June 8, 2026 after a private valuation of $852 billion, and its own listing is aimed more at 2027. Anthropic could therefore be the first major AI lab on the public market.
The prospectus also revealed a deal with SpaceX for compute worth up to $120.5 billion — AI infrastructure is becoming the capital game of the decade. SpaceX simultaneously closed a $40 billion GPU financing with Apollo.
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