Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors (New York Times)

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technology/anthropic-ipo-100-billion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.MV6-.qU64iVlZqRdu&amp;smid=url-share"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260821/i32.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260821/p32#a260821p32" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technology/anthropic-ipo-100-billion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.MV6-.qU64iVlZqRdu&amp;smid=url-share">Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk's SpaceX.</p>