NEWS | Anthropic is still on track for an IPO sometime in 2026, according to multiple people familiar with the plans, even after CEO Dario Amodei set off a wave of AI safety concerns with his public call for the industry to slow down. Anthropic confidentially filed paperwork with the SEC back in June, and by the end of July its annualized revenue run rate had reportedly climbed past 65 billion dollars, up sharply from about 9 billion dollars at the end of last year.
Insiders say Anthropic actually sees this moment differently than outsiders might expect. Going public forces more financial transparency, and the company reportedly views that transparency as something that can support its safety commitments rather than undercut them. A separate report from several weeks ago suggested the IPO could value Anthropic as high as 2 trillion dollars with a possible October listing, though that specific figure has not been confirmed again since.
BMN sees a real tension worth watching here. Amodei spent the past week publicly warning that AI companies need to slow down to avoid serious risks, while his own company is reportedly speeding toward one of the largest public listings in history. Both things can be true at once, but they sit uneasily side by side.
Rival OpenAI is still leaning toward a 2027 listing instead, meaning Anthropic may end up being first to test how public markets actually price a company built around warning the world about its own product.
If the CEO leading the call to slow AI down is also leading his own company toward a massive public listing this year, which one actually reflects what Anthropic believes about the pace it is setting?
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