Anthropic Chooses Nasdaq for Blockbuster IPO
Anthropic IPO 2026: Inside the $2 Trillion Nasdaq Listing That Could Beat SpaceX's Record TL;DR Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026 and is targeting a Nasdaq listing around October 2026 at a valuation banks and investors are discussing near $2 trillion - which would surpass SpaceX's $1.77 trillion IPO as the largest in history. Its annualized revenue run rate went from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025 to over $65 billion by July 2026 - a remarkably steep growth curve, and the company has reportedly turned operating-income positive for the first time. The much-repeated "Fable 5 hacked the IPO story" version going around isn't quite right: the real event was a US export-control order that forced a global suspension of two models for 18 days in June, triggered by a jailbreak Amazon's own researchers found - not a lone hacker forcing government intervention. This is a fast-moving, still-unconfirmed process - tre...