Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, during the company’s Builder Summit in Bangalore, India, February 16, 2026.
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Anthropic is holding meetings with investors ahead of a possible IPO later this year, a person with knowledge of the plans told CNBC.
The bankers leading the offering schedule meetings between potential investors and company executives. artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude models, said the person, who requested anonymity when speaking about the process.
The meetings suggest Anthropic’s IPO preparations are moving forward, as bankers begin to gauge investor demand ahead of a formal roadshow and possible share sale. Anthropic filed confidentially It is Filed an IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, but has not revealed when it plans to debut.
The giant AI startup could hit the public markets as soon as October, although the timeline could change, according to Bloombergwhich was the first to report on the investor meetings. An Anthropic spokesperson declined to comment.
An Anthropic listing would build on the momentum created by the enormous EspaceX IPO and increased opening of public markets to companies at center of AI boom. It follows years in which the industry’s biggest names remained private while raising hundreds of billions of dollars from investors.
Anthropic looks ready to beat its rival OpenAI to the public marketswhich could be an advantage for the startup if enthusiasm for AI subsequently wanes. OpenAI too filed confidentially for an IPO with the SEC in June, but it did not disclose any additional details.
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