{
  "id": 7962703,
  "title": "Anthropic priced above $2 trillion as markets eagerly await IPO filing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/anthropic-priced-above-2-trillion-as-markets-eagerly-await-ipo-filing-7962703",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-17T05:00:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews Business",
    "slug": "euronews-business",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/09/17/anthropic-priced-above-2-trillion-as-markets-eagerly-await-ipo-filing"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Anthropic, the company behind the popular AI model Claude, has priced its pre-IPO valuation above $2 trillion, despite not having finalized its financial accounts. The company, founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei, has chosen to list on Nasdaq. Anthropic's last agreed valuation was $965 billion after a $65 billion funding round in May 2022. The company's annualized revenue run rate by July 2022 was $65 billion, driven by enterprise adoption of Claude. Amazon has committed to investing up to $33 billion in Anthropic, while the company itself plans to spend over $100 billion on AWS technologies in the coming decade. Investors are currently targeting a valuation far higher than the last round, with reports indicating a $2 trillion IPO valuation. The market is trading perpetual futures contracts tracking Anthropic's pre-IPO valuation, with the implied market capitalization reaching an all-time high of $2.36 trillion. Heng Yu Lee, a market maker at DWF Labs, dismisses the suggestion that leverage is driving the premium, stating that the demand reflected in the price is genuine. The market for these contracts is currently small, with only $6 million in 24-hour volume and $31 million in open interest on Hyperliquid, but it is expected to improve as the listing approaches.",
  "summary": "Traders are pricing Anthropic above $2 trillion (€1.73tn) in pre-IPO markets, more than double the company's valuation in its last private funding round, as investors wait for the public release of the S-1 filing that could open the way to the largest flotation in history.",
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        "title": "Anthropic priced above $2 trillion as markets eagerly await IPO filing",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/anthropic-priced-above-2-trillion-as-markets-eagerly-await-ipo-filing",
        "published": "2026-09-17T05:00:11.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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