Anthropic Gears Up for October IPO as Wall Street Titans Schedule Investor Meetings
Anthropic, the renowned AI safety firm behind the widely-used Claude AI models, is inching towards what could be one of the most eagerly awaited public market debuts of 2026. As per reports from CNBC and Bloomberg, the company has initiated preliminary investor meetings in anticipation of a potential initial public offering (IPO) as early as October.
Wall Street’s heavyweights — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase — are orchestrating the offering and are diligently arranging meetings between potential investors and Anthropic’s executive team. These “testing the waters” sessions are a routine procedure following a confidential SEC filing, which Anthropic submitted last month. No official debut date has been declared, however, Bloomberg suggests the listing could be as soon as October 2026.
Anthropic’s move places it ahead of its competitor OpenAI, which also confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC in June but has remained tight-lipped about further details. Anthropic’s last funding round in May pegged the company’s worth at a jaw-dropping $965 billion — marking it as one of the most valuable private companies in history. If it sustains that valuation at listing, Anthropic would make its debut as one of the most valuable publicly traded companies globally. The company, established in 2021 by ex-OpenAI researchers, has gained significant enterprise traction through its Claude Code coding assistant and its Claude AI model lineup.
Source: CNBC – Anthropic inches towards mega-IPO as bankers schedule investor meetings