Anthropic has confidentially filed its IPO prospectus, picked the Nasdaq, and is meeting investors ahead of a potential listing as soon as next month at a valuation that could reach $2 trillion, up from $965 billion earlier this year. The push coincides with CEO Dario Amodei's weekend essay urging the industry to slow model development, creating an apparent tension between his safety positioning and the growth story being marketed, with President Trump publicly attacking the proposal and OpenAI's Altman calling now an ill-advised time to go public. Anthropic reported $65 billion in annualized revenue in July, roughly sevenfold year-over-year growth, and told shareholders it expects a second straight quarter of operating profit. For financial institutions, a $2 trillion listing for a five-year-old company would be a defining test of public-market appetite for AI risk pricing, and Amodei's slowdown rhetoric introduces new uncertainty into how model-lab growth trajectories are underwritten.
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