ANTHROPIC SECRETLY FILES FOR IPO — RACE WITH OPENAI TO HIT PUBLIC MARKETS BEGINS NOW Anthropic dropped a bombshell on Monday, filing a confidential registration statement with the SEC to go public. The Claude maker, valued at $965 billion after closing a $65 billion funding round earlier this year, is moving faster than anyone expected, beating OpenAI in the race to Wall Street by what could be months. The filing triggers a quiet review period while the SEC processes the paperwork, meaning the public prospectus with full financial details will not land until the company officially kicks off its roadshow. The strategic urgency is hard to miss. Anthropic revenue run rate has ballooned to $47 billion, more than four times the $10 billion annual figure it reported just six months ago. Over a thousand enterprise customers are now spending over a million dollars annually on Claude, a number that doubled in less than two months. That kind of growth curve hands the company maximum leverage at the exact moment it approaches public investors. OpenAI is widely expected to follow. But by moving first, Anthropic locks in narrative control and forces its chief rival to react on its timeline. The trillion-dollar question now is whether public markets are ready to price an AI company that has never been more valuable or more expensive to run. If the IPO prices near the $965 billion private valuation, Anthropic would debut as one of the largest companies ever to list on US exchanges. Keywords: Anthropic IPO, Claude AI public offering, AI startup stock market, Anthropic SEC filing