SpaceX's stock market debut is being read as a signal far beyond the rocket business. The company finished its first week of public trading up 37% from its IPO price, according to a Bloomberg report featured on MSN — a jump the segment frames as evidence of strong investor enthusiasm for marquee tech names.
That enthusiasm is now spilling over into the artificial intelligence world. The Bloomberg segment, hosted by "Masters in Business" host Barry Ritholtz, points to the capital flowing into SpaceX as fueling anticipation that AI heavyweights OpenAI and Anthropic could be next to tap public or private markets.
The interest in Anthropic appears to be more than speculation. According to the Australian Financial Review (AFR), Anthropic is "heading to Wall Street" — language suggesting the AI lab is moving toward a public listing of its own.
The AFR also places the story in a global frame, reporting that as Anthropic looks to Western markets, China is building what it describes as an "AI Nasdaq" — a sign that the race to finance artificial intelligence is becoming a contest between competing financial centers, not just competing companies.
Taken together, the sources sketch a moment of unusual investor appetite: a successful high-profile IPO appears to be lowering the perceived risk of betting big on the next wave of technology firms.
Why it matters: If a single strong debut like SpaceX's can accelerate funding momentum for OpenAI and Anthropic, it suggests the companies building today's most powerful AI may soon be answerable to public shareholders — reshaping who controls, and profits from, the technology.