Anthropic, the AI Company Behind Popular Chatbot Claude, Could Soon Be Worth $2 Trillion

One of the biggest companies in artificial intelligence (AI) is getting ready to sell its shares on the stock market for the first time. This move could be worth trillions of dollars.

Anthropic, the company that makes the AI chatbot Claude, filed paperwork on Monday, October 26, to sell shares to the public for the first time.

According to Reuters, the company's initial public offering (IPO), which is when a company first sells its shares to the public, could value Anthropic at as much as $1.5 trillion. Some experts say the company could be worth more than $2 trillion. That would make it more valuable than Elon Musk's SpaceX, NBC News reported.

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei. It has quickly become a major company in the AI industry. Its best-known product, Claude, competes with other AI assistants, including ChatGPT.

"Anthropic has plenty of money behind it, but an IPO would give the company more freedom to manage its finances. No company wants to spend too long getting ready to go public, because it can distract from other work," Matt Kennedy, a senior strategist at Renaissance Capital, told Reuters.

Anthropic has lost money every year since it was founded. According to the company's filing, it lost $80.7 billion in the first six months of 2026 alone.

The company does not seem to be slowing its spending. It plans to spend at least $110 billion with Amazon on cloud computing services over the next 10 years, up to $120.5 billion with SpaceX through 2029, and a total of $160 billion with Google and Microsoft.

The company plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock market under the symbol "ANT."