The artificial intelligence giant Anthropic is seeking a valuation of about $1.3 trillion in an initial public offering, despite questions about the huge amounts of money flowing into the sector.
The company behind the chatbot Claude It said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it will sell 825 million shares at between $70 and $78 per share. That would give it the ability to raise more than $61 billion, if the IPO is set at the midpoint.
The company of San Francisco must make its debut in Wall Street this month.
Anthropic could end up being the largest initial public offering in history, possibly surpassing the record $86 billion raised by SpaceX in its initial public offering in June. Shortly after Anthropic must go public OpenAIsetting the stage for a duel of debuts by rival AI developers.
Anthropic’s bid could give it huge resources to accelerate its expansion and add billions of dollars to the fortunes of CEO Dario Amodei and his sister and co-founder, Daniela.
According to a regulatory filing last month, Anthropic’s revenue is growing rapidly, topping $16 billion in the first half of the year — 14 times its revenue from the same period last year. But, like many other technology companies released on the stock market, the company has not yet made a profit.
Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI leaders, Anthropic is locked in a dominance struggle with that company. But both companies have many other competitors, including Google, newer startups in the United States and China, and SpaceX, which has an AI business. Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX’s AI division have been losing more money than they make due to the huge resource costs to build AI, sparking concerns about a bubble.
Dario Amodei warned in September that the AI industry should slow down its development to allow for the proper development of safety measures. Without that slowdown, Amodei warned that AI could unleash a swarm of agents capable of taking over the entire internet within six to 12 months.
It laid out a plan on its website to increase controls over the industry, noting that Anthropic is already doing its part. However, he warned that coordination is also required with the entire industry and with governments around the world, including authoritarian ones.
The shares will be listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “ANT.”
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor using a generative artificial intelligence tool.
Source: www.independentespanol.com
