Anthropic officially files for an IPO
Anthropic officially files for its public debut
Anthropic formally filed for an IPO on Monday, planning to list under the ticker symbol "ANT". According to its latest SEC filing, the company had revenue of 16.3 billion USD in the first half of 2026, compared with 1.2 billion USD in the same period last year; operating loss was 693 million USD, narrowed from 2.1 billion USD in the first half of 2025; net loss reached 80.7 billion USD, mainly from non-cash accounting adjustments related to convertible bonds, and the company says it may not achieve or sustain profitability in the future. As of the end of September, customers spending more than 100,000 USD annually exceeded 11,900, of which 1,900 spent more than 1 million USD and about 250 spent more than 10 million USD. On governance, seven co-founders will collectively hold 50.1% of shareholder voting power through a Founder LLC, which Anthropic says is intended to safeguard its AI safety mission, and the Long-Term Benefit Trust established in 2023 will have the power to appoint a majority of the board; the structure is controversial because voting power and economic ownership are unequal.
The prospectus discloses revenue growing from 1.2 billion to 16.3 billion USD, founders controlling the company with 50.1% voting power, and limited constraints on public shareholders in a company that describes its technology as posing a catastrophic risk.