Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot and one of OpenAI's chief rivals, is preparing a stock market debut that US media report could break the record set by SpaceX.
According to reports carried by outlets including Yahoo Finance Singapore and RFI, Anthropic's market debut could surpass the record set when Elon Musk's space company went public in June. Reporting summarized by MSN adds that Anthropic could then also beat OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT — though the specifics of that comparison sit with the original US media reports rather than these aggregated summaries.
The road there is not clear. As one report framed it, Anthropic will have to confront "a less flattering reality" as it enters the public markets: growing opposition to artificial intelligence itself, and to the data centres needed to power it. Public listings invite scrutiny that private companies can largely avoid — from investors, regulators, and communities living near the enormous power- and water-hungry facilities that AI models run on.
The IPO preparations are already changing behavior elsewhere. A MarketScale report argues that Anthropic's mega-IPO prep is pushing enterprise buyers to treat AI vendors like long-term critical infrastructure — in other words, corporate customers are starting to evaluate AI companies the way they'd evaluate a utility or a core database provider, weighing whether the vendor will still be standing, and stable, years from now.
A quick caveat worth stating plainly: nothing here is confirmed by Anthropic. These are media reports about a debut that hasn't happened, with no official valuation, size, or date attached in the available sourcing.
Why it matters: if the reports hold up, Anthropic's listing would be the moment the AI boom stops being a private-market story and starts being one that ordinary investors, and their retirement accounts, are directly exposed to.