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Anthropic is making an enormous wager that artificial intelligence will reshape the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to an IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters on September 28.

The price of that ambition is formidable. Anthropic reported a net loss of nearly $42 billion in 2025 and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming years, according to the prospectus.

The company also posted explosive growth during the year. Revenue increased twelve times to nearly $4.6 billion in 2025, while its operating loss exceeded $8 billion after excluding writedowns of liabilities tied mostly to previous fundraising.

Anthropic’s net loss included an accounting charge of roughly $34 billion. That charge reflected an increase in the estimated value of financing that could eventually become Anthropic shares, rather than money spent operating the business.

The AI laboratory spent $7.33 billion on computing and infrastructure last year, three times its 2024 level. Those costs represented more than half of Anthropic’s $12.65 billion in total operating expenses.

A public sale could value Anthropic at more than $2 trillion, potentially turning the company into a major test of Wall Street’s appetite for artificial intelligence businesses. The startup came into existence five years ago.

Anthropic’s expected valuation target is more than double its own estimated valuation of $965 billion in May. Analysts expect the first major AI laboratory to go public to establish valuation benchmarks for the wider industry.

The company’s public market debut will likely be pushed until after the November US midterm elections, Reuters previously reported, citing sources. The offering would give public investors access to an AI race financed until now by venture capital firms, sovereign wealth funds and major technology companies.

The prospectus also highlights risks tied to Anthropic’s customer base. Nearly a quarter of its revenue came from two customers last year, while many large clients lacked long term contracts and could reduce or stop spending.

Anthropic reported $20.28 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short term investments as of December 31. That financial position stands against the company’s widening losses and enormous planned obligations for computing, cloud services and infrastructure.

The filing comes as Anthropic confronts findings from its own research showing that increasingly autonomous AI models can behave in unexpected and potentially harmful ways. In controlled tests, those behaviors included sabotaging code, assisting fraud and manipulating information.

Reports about those tests have moved into public view, intensifying concerns about whether companies can control increasingly powerful systems while deploying them commercially. CEO Dario Amodei has called for the global AI community to slow the release of new capabilities.

Even so, Anthropic introduced its Opus 5.5 model last week to counter OpenAI’s momentum following the launch of GPT-6 Astra. The release arrived ahead of Anthropic’s anticipated IPO.

The offering would follow SpaceX’s recent IPO, which valued Elon Musk’s company at $1.77 trillion. SpaceX shares climbed 19% to $160 during their June 12 debut but currently trade near $147, above the IPO price of $135 each.

That performance could make investors more cautious as they evaluate lofty valuations for rapidly growing companies. AI and semiconductor stocks have recently sold off, leaving Anthropic’s offering to test whether enthusiasm for the trade can survive greater scrutiny of ambitious growth projections.

Anthropic competes with OpenAI, SpaceX’s xAI, Alphabet’s Google and Meta for customers, talent, infrastructure and influence. OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO in June and is expected to list by early 2027, according to media reports.

Amazon and Google were early strategic partners for Anthropic, investing billions of dollars while providing cloud infrastructure used to train and deploy Claude models. Anthropic and Amodei also clashed with the White House over use of its tools, leading the Pentagon to temporarily blacklist the company before a US judge blocked the move in August.

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