Anthropic to raise $64bn in major stock market listing

Anthropic to raise $64bn in major stock market listing

The AI company behind the Claude chatbot will offer its shares at between $70 and $78.

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, is planning to raise up to $64bn (£48bn) when it lists its shares for sale on New York's Nasdaq stock exchange.

The loss-making company said it will offer its shares for between $70 and $78 each in its initial public offering (IPO), which is expected to go ahead this month.

Anthropic is floating at a volatile time for AI businesses - following last week's US midterm elections, the Nasdaq fell sharply on concerns a Democrat-led Congress could slow development of the technology and the buildout of infrastructure such as data centres.

There are also wider fears over the billions of dollars being spent on AI and whether it will pay off.

Fiona Cincotta, a senior market analyst at City Index, said the amount Anthropic wants to raise is "fairly bullish" within "the volatility [and] concerns towards AI that we've seen in sort of particularly last week".

She told Reuters: "It's showing that they are still sort of upbeat about the outlook as far as AI is concerned and that obviously that they think that the demand is going to be there."

In brief

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, is planning to raise up to $64bn (£48bn) when it lists its shares for sale on New York's Nasdaq stock exchange. Fiona Cincotta, a senior market analyst at City Index, said the amount Anthropic wants to raise is "fairly bullish" within "the volatility [and] concerns towards AI that we've seen in sort of particularly last week".

This is the opening of the story, shared with credit to BBC News — World. The rest of the report — with every detail — continues on the publisher’s website.

Continue reading at BBC News — World ↗

Cookie settings

Choose which cookies we may use. You can change this at any time from Cookie settings in the footer. Details of each cookie are in the Cookie Policy.

Strictly necessary

Needed for sign-in, security, payments and remembering these choices. Always on.

Preferences

Remember settings such as dark mode.

Analytics

Help us understand visits and countries – anonymous and aggregated.

Marketing

Used to measure and personalise adverts and social media content.

🔔 News notifications

Get headlines from NewsHub on this device — even when the site is closed.

You can switch this off at any time. Works on Android, Windows, Mac and Linux browsers; on iPhone/iPad add the site to your Home Screen first.