Anthropic tells investors its push into healthcare and biology will boost public sentiment for AI, as it gears up for a September IPO that will test appetite for frontier-model developers.
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Anthropic is telling potential investors that its work in healthcare and biology will improve public sentiment about artificial intelligence, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. The strategy is part of the pitch the company is making ahead of its initial public offering, which it aims to launch in September or early October.
The company is also arguing that it can hold off lower-priced Chinese AI developers by sticking with frontier models. Most users want the best model available, not the cheapest one, Anthropic told investors in recent meetings, per the report.
The IPO comes as leading AI developers face tougher questions. Anthropic has to address low-cost competition, growing public opposition to data center construction, and tension with the Trump administration, the Journal reported. Data center opposition has stalled projects in several states, and Anthropic's reliance on massive compute clusters makes it vulnerable to permitting delays. The company's relationship with the White House is strained after Anthropic criticized certain executive orders, the report said.
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1. “This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review,” the company said at the time. The offering depends on market conditions and other factors.
The filing followed a rapid run-up in valuation. On May 28, Anthropic closed a Series H round that valued it at $965 billion post-money and raised $65 billion. That was up from a $380 billion valuation in a February Series G round that raised $30 billion. The jump reflects investor hunger for frontier AI, even as questions mount about the economics of training ever-larger models.
Anthropic President and Co-Founder Daniela Amodei said June 4 that the cost of training AI models is driving companies like Anthropic to go public. The IPO's performance will serve as a gauge for investor sentiment across the top AI developers, the Journal reported.
Anthropic did not reply to a request for comment.
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