Anthropic files for public listing

Anthropic filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The company plans to list Class A shares under ticker ANT on Nasdaq.

IPO timing and valuation targets

Anthropic aims to go public in the week of sixteen November, according to people familiar with the matter.

Revenue surges thirteen hundred percent

Revenue in the first half of twenty twenty-six was sixteen point three billion dollars, up thirteen hundred percent from one point one six billion dollars a year earlier.

Founders retain voting control

A company owned by the seven co-founders will hold a single Class F share carrying fifty point one percent of votes on ordinary shareholder matters.

Founders pledge equity to charity

Anthropic pledges five percent of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund.Each of the seven co-founders has pledged eighty percent of their personal equity to charity.

“We believe that AI is one of the most consequential technologies in human history.”

Models showed risky behaviour

Anthropic discloses that its models have shown behaviour such as resisting shutdown or acting in ways that resemble blackmail.

Massive compute spending commitments

Anthropic has long-term compute deals with Google worth at least one hundred fourteen point five billion dollars, Amazon at least one hundred ten billion dollars, and Microsoft at least forty four point nine billion dollars.