Sales for first half of 2026 14 times higher than US Anthropic's largest IPO in history?

[Silicon Valley Current Affairs] The prospectus submitted by US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its initial public offering (IPO) was released on the 26th. Although the company's results for the first half of 2026 showed a large net loss, sales were 14 times higher than the same period last year, indicating rapid growth. The public price will be determined in the future.

Anthropic releases IPO prospectus, plans to list on NASDAQ

According to US media, the amount raised could be around $100 billion (approximately 15.8 trillion yen), making it the largest in history, surpassing the $85.7 billion raised by SpaceX, a US space and AI company that went public in June. The company is expected to go public in November, with a corporate value of between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion.

It is listed on the U.S. NASDAQ market, and its ticker, which corresponds to the Japanese stock code, is "ANT." According to the prospectus, sales for the first half of 2026 were $16.286 billion, 14 times higher than the same period last year.

The company had a large net loss of $80.748 billion, but accounting treatment related to convertible bonds accounted for most of it.