Anthropic is heading for the stock market, and it is moving fast
On July 15, 2026, Bloomberg and CNBC reported that the banks leading Anthropic’s IPO (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan) are scheduling meetings between the Claude maker and public-market investors in the coming weeks. A listing could come as soon as October.
The run-up
The company confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC in June and closed a $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion valuation in May. If the timeline holds, Anthropic beats OpenAI to the public markets and becomes the first mega-IPO of the AI era.
Why it matters
An Anthropic listing would give the market its first real price for a frontier AI lab, and every AI stock, chip maker and data center play will trade off that number.
Sources
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