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The Claude maker is preparing to file publicly as soon as end of August at a valuation floated as high as $2 trillion — while its prospectus will warn investors that opposition to AI and data centers could throttle growth.
The Claude maker's annualized revenue jumped sevenfold in seven months, positioning it to beat OpenAI to the public markets — as OpenAI counters with a privacy-first safety pitch to enterprise buyers.
The Claude maker is running the numbers on a mega-listing that would eclipse the biggest first-time share sale ever, with Citigroup joining Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on the deal.
The Claude maker's annualized revenue jumped sevenfold from year-end 2025, days after it disclosed $11.5 billion in Q2 revenue and its first quarter of positive adjusted operating income.
The AI voice startup, used inside almost every Fortune 500, nearly tripled its valuation in nine months and shipped its first in-house speech model as competition from Apple, Google and Microsoft intensifies.
The two-year-old AI video platform, founded by ex-Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, has quadrupled its valuation in eight months as business customers overtake consumers on its books.
The Claude maker's largest-ever acquisition target builds software that squeezes more performance from AI chips — a fit for Anthropic's ballooning compute bill ahead of its IPO.
The San Francisco data-and-AI company capped its second mega-round of 2026 after investor interest hit $15 billion, with CEO Ali Ghodsi pointing to enterprise agent spending and CFO alarm over token costs.
The Swedish legal-AI startup is in early talks for a round that would nearly double its spring mark, per the FT, as rival Harvey chases $15.5bn.
The Milan-based acquirer values the no-code workflow platform at roughly a quarter of its 2021 peak, in an all-cash transaction that also implies a $2.25 billion equity value.
Alphabet's AI leadership is reshuffling on the same day a 27-year veteran walks out with three colleagues to start a Google-backed AI-for-science company.
Backed by Marc Benioff, Michael Dell and the Bonobo AI founding team, the New York startup wants to shrink the army of forward-deployed engineers enterprises now hire to make AI actually work.
The chipmaker's equity check, paired with early access to the Vera Rubin platform, is set to expand SSI's compute by an order of magnitude.
Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter model is now downloadable, sending Chinese rivals' shares tumbling and reigniting Washington's fight over open-source AI from China.
The Nvidia-backed inference platform crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue, up 5× year-over-year, as CFOs push teams toward cheaper, customizable alternatives to frontier lab APIs.
The NVIDIA-backed inference startup founded by the PyTorch team crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue and now serves 40 trillion tokens a day, betting the future of enterprise AI is owned, not rented.
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are scheduling pre-IPO sit-downs for the Claude maker, which could beat OpenAI to the public markets by at least a year.
Aramco Ventures led the Series C, with Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, Vista and General Catalyst joining a round that more than doubles the neocloud's valuation in 16 months.
Aramco Ventures led the July 1 round for the San Francisco neocloud, which also secured commitments for more than 500 MW of compute capacity to scale open-source model inference.
The LLM-optimized inference ASIC is showing roughly 50% cost savings versus standard AI GPUs, with initial deployment targeted by the end of 2026.
The chipmaker's biggest software acquisition yet brings in Chris Lattner's vendor-neutral AI inference stack as Qualcomm builds out a data center business.
The deal, formalized two trading days after SpaceX's Nasdaq debut, hands Elon Musk's xAI a million-user coding tool — and ranks as the largest venture-backed startup acquisition of 2026.
Elon Musk's rocket-and-AI conglomerate closed its first day at a $2 trillion market cap, clearing the runway for confidential filings from OpenAI and Anthropic.
The ChatGPT maker submitted draft paperwork to the SEC a week after Anthropic, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lining up a potential fall 2026 listing.
SPCX opened at $150 on June 12, 11% above its IPO price, valuing Musk's rocket-and-AI conglomerate near $2 trillion — and triggering a 30-day countdown to swallowing Cursor.
The ChatGPT maker, last valued at $852 billion, is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on a filing that could land alongside Anthropic and SpaceX in the most concentrated IPO window since the dot-com era.
The ChatGPT maker submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC on Monday at an $852 billion valuation, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading a potential fall debut.
The Claude maker submitted a draft S-1 on Monday, days after closing a $65 billion Series H, setting up a potential fall debut ahead of OpenAI and behind SpaceX.
ChatGPT's maker submitted draft IPO paperwork a week after Anthropic, setting up a fall 2026 listing window with combined private-market valuations near $2 trillion.
Google's parent expanded its offering from $80B to $84.75B after demand swelled, with a $10B Berkshire Hathaway placement anchoring a buildout that could push 2026 capex to $190 billion.
The Claude maker submitted a draft registration statement to the SEC on June 1, days after a $65 billion Series H pushed it past OpenAI for the first time.
A faster, more honest flagship model and the imminent end of Mythos's restricted preview land on the same day as a record Series H that vaults Anthropic past OpenAI.
Claude for Small Business launches as a tier between the consumer plan and the enterprise contract — a bet that the company can sell into the SaaS-stack mid-market without a sales motion.