Anthropic May Reach the Market at Over 2.000 Billion Dollars, More Than Double Its Last Private Round

Anthropic could arrive on Wall Street valued at more than 2.000 billion dollars, over double the 965 billion it reached in its last funding round. According to the Financial Times, some investors in the artificial intelligence company believe it could list as early as October, carried by fast revenue growth and demand for its Claude models. If that held, it would be one of the most ambitious listings the market has seen, and would put a company founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei directly alongside the most valuable technology groups in the world. The nearest reference point is SpaceX, which listed in June at around 1.770 billion dollars.

The run has been quick. At the end of May the company announced a Series H of 65 billion dollars led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, taking the post money valuation to 965 billion. In the same announcement it said it had passed 47 billion dollars of annualised revenue at the start of May. No official valuation target for a listing has been set, so the 2.000 billion figure reflects what some investors expect rather than anything the company has fixed.

Behind those expectations sits the growth of Claude among corporate customers, the segment where Anthropic has concentrated much of its strategy. Data from Ramp shows how close the contest with OpenAI has become. In April Anthropic passed its rival in adoption among the companies tracked for the first time, at 34,4 percent against 32,3 percent. The gap widened after that: by June, according to the Ramp AI Index published in July, Anthropic was in use at 42,4 percent of the companies covered against 39,5 percent for OpenAI. The same data shows Chinese and open source models gaining ground, particularly among the heaviest users of artificial intelligence, without yet taking significant share from the two main American providers.

A listing would arrive at an awkward moment for the sector. Capital keeps flowing towards artificial intelligence while the questions get louder: whether the valuations are sustainable, what the infrastructure to train and run the models actually costs, and whether growing usage turns into durable economics. Price competition is part of the same pressure. Open source alternatives and models built by Chinese laboratories are widening what a company can choose from, especially for work that does not need the most advanced and most expensive systems, even if adoption of those alternatives remains limited for now.

There is a political dimension too. In June Anthropic temporarily suspended access to its Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models after an American government directive imposing restrictions on foreign nationals. The measures were later withdrawn and the models were restored at the start of July.

It is the relationship between growth and price that makes this one of the more important tests the artificial intelligence market has faced. Moving from 965 billion in the last private round to more than 2.000 billion means more than doubling the value of the company within months. To justify it, investors are betting that revenue keeps expanding at pace and that the position in the enterprise market holds. The public market will decide how much investors are still willing to pay for that growth.