The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double its valuation in an autumn listing.
At $2 trillion it would eclipse SpaceX, which went public at $1.77 trillion in June.
Anthropic itself has fixed nothing. Several investors said senior executives had not settled on a target, even privately. The models are the investors’ own.
The machinery is moving regardless. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are leading the offering, Quartz reported.
Three bulge-bracket banks on a mandate is not a rumour. It is the difference between investors discussing a listing and a listing being built.
