Anthropic has chosen the Nasdaq for its IPO listing

Sep 13, 2026 11:01 PM - 4 hours ago 4

Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO astatine Anthropic's office successful San Francisco successful April 2026

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei. Bloomberg/Getty Images

Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its imaginable IPO, according to a personification acquainted pinch their plans.

The company, which has been targeting an October listing, has fixed Nasdaq different large win, according to a personification acquainted pinch the matter. Nasdaq secured the coveted SpaceX listing earlier this year. SpaceX was valued astatine $1.75 trillion, and immoderate estimates person put Anthropic astatine $2 trillion, though that fig has not yet been finalized.

The record-setting size of these IPOs, mixed pinch the dearth successful tech listings successful caller years, has made winning this title peculiarly valuable. Both dream to beryllium seen arsenic the location for early AI IPOs.

Anthropic is preparing to IPO astatine a clip erstwhile OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it wouldn't spell public correct now amid the contention surrounding existential threats from AI. That consequence gained more attention past week aft a viral tweet from a former Anthropic employee, informing of a greater than 10% quality extinction risk.

Historically, the New York Stock Exchange has won galore of the largest listings, truthful this twelvemonth has shown a marked shift. Nasdaq has been consistently beardown successful tech IPOs, pinch listings connected its speech a prerequisite for inclusion successful the Nasdaq 100 Index.

In position of really Anthropic yet trades, this determination apt matters little. There isn't a definitive reply connected whether companies execute amended connected 1 speech versus another.

One cardinal quality betwixt the exchanges concerns market-maker mechanics. They person different processes for determining the opening value connected the first time of trading, and high-volume IPOs tin origin delays and confusion. Nasdaq knowledgeable method issues connected the first time of Facebook's 2012 IPO.

Anthropic's IPO filing has not yet been made public, but the institution will request to merchandise its financials astatine slightest 15 days earlier it originates its investor roadworthy show.

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