TLDR
- Anthropic is targeting a $2 trillion IPO that could surpass SpaceX’s record $86.2 billion listing
- The company lost nearly $42 billion in 2025 but projects $65 billion in annual revenue
- Anthropic is asking job candidates how they would feel if the stock dropped to zero
- CEO Dario Amodei has warned that AI wealth concentration could “break society”
- The company is in a legal battle with the Trump administration over military AI access
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of models, is preparing for an IPO that could value the company at $2 trillion. That would make it one of the largest public market debuts in history, potentially surpassing SpaceX’s $86.2 billion listing from June.
wtf Anthropic’s IPO pitch: more than $30 trillion in potential revenue, topping SpaceX and xAI’s $28.5 trillion estimate.
Anthropic may tell investors that the work Claude and other AI models could eventually perform represents a market worth more than $30 trillion.
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The San Francisco-based company was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives, including CEO Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela, who serves as president. The company now employs around 5,000 people.
Anthropic has positioned itself as a focused alternative to OpenAI. While OpenAI expanded into video creation and web browsers, Anthropic doubled down on coding tools for developers.
That strategy appears to be working. Claude Code, its developer assistant, has become one of its most popular products. The company now projects $65 billion in annual revenue.
Massive Losses Behind the Big Numbers
Despite the strong revenue projections, Anthropic is burning cash at a rapid pace. The company reportedly lost nearly $42 billion in 2025 and is expected to continue losing money for years.
To attract investors, Anthropic is reportedly planning to pitch revenue opportunities worth more than $30 trillion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Anthropic was valued at just under one trillion dollars after raising $65 billion in May. The company says it needs public market capital to keep funding the computing power required to build and maintain frontier AI models.
CEO Raises Concerns About Employee Priorities
With a potential $2 trillion valuation expected to create millionaires across its workforce of more than 2,500 employees, Anthropic is reportedly asking job candidates a pointed question during interviews.
Candidates are being asked how they would feel if the company abandoned its AI safety mission and the stock fell to zero, according to Axios.
Dario Amodei, whose net worth is estimated at $15.5 billion, has expressed concern that large financial incentives could pull employees away from the company’s core mission.
Anthropic is offering base salaries between $320,000 and $405,000 for staff software engineering roles. Some candidates are reportedly spending over $4,000 on private coaching just to land an interview.
Amodei recently pledged to give away 80% of his wealth, alongside Anthropic’s other six co-founders. He has also called on wealthy tech leaders to take philanthropy seriously.
“The thing to worry about is a level of wealth concentration that will break society,” Amodei wrote in a public letter earlier this year.
Political and Legal Headwinds
Anthropic is also dealing with friction from the Trump administration. In March, the government canceled its contracts with the company and labeled it a supply chain risk after Anthropic refused to give the military unrestricted access to its AI models.
Anthropic called the move unconstitutional. The two sides are now in a legal dispute that could take years to resolve.
OpenAI, which had planned its own IPO for this year, is now signaling it will wait until 2027. Anthropic appears set to move ahead on its own timeline.
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