AI: Anthropic may slash its IPO ambitions
Claude creator Anthropic is targeting a public listing in the week of November 16 and was slated to raise up to $100 billion, sources say, which would make it the biggest ever.
The American flagship of artificial intelligence (AI) Anthropic may have to settle for a valuation of less than $1,500 billion for its IPO, the brutal fall in technology stocks having cooled off key investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The creator of the Claude assistant is aiming for an IPO the week of November 16 and was expected to raise up to 100 billion dollars, according to the American press, which would make it the largest in history, ahead of that of SpaceX in June (nearly 86 billion). Three large investors who intend to participate in the operation indicated to the daily that the valuation should probably be lowered, one of them estimating it closer to 1,000 billion dollars.
In October, several investors had already reduced their expectations from around 2 trillion to around 1.5 trillion dollars, after a slowdown in Anthropic's revenue growth. A postponed introduction? One of the investors cited by the WSJ even raised the possibility that Anthropic would postpone its IPO.
The company could also reduce the size of the operation, according to the daily. This IPO is being prepared as investors become increasingly concerned about the colossal sums invested in AI. On Thursday, the Nasdaq index, with its strong technological coloring, plunged more than 5.5%, its biggest fall since April 2025, investors fearing a brake on the construction of data centers after the large victory of the Democrats in the mid-term elections.
Contacted by AFP, the company did not immediately respond. The scale of the operation and Anthropic's close business ties with Google, Amazon and Nvidia give this project significant repercussions for the markets and the economy. Its rival OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, has postponed its own IPO project until 2027.
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