Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the company’s Builder Summit in Bangalore, India, on February 16, 2026.
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Anthropic is preparing to meet with investors ahead of an initial public offering later this year, people familiar with the plans told CNBC.
The bankers leading the proposal are scheduling meetings with potential investors and executives from the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude model, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the process.
The meeting signals Anthropic’s IPO preparations are progressing, with bankers beginning to gauge investor demand ahead of a formal roadshow and eventual stock sale. Anthropic confidentially filed an IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission last month, but has not said when it plans to debut.
The giant AI startup could hit the public market as early as October, but the timing is subject to change, according to Bloomberg, which first reported on the investor meeting. An Anthropic spokesperson declined to comment.
Anthropic’s listing will build on momentum from June’s massive deal space x IPO and further open the public market to companies at the center of the AI boom. This follows years in which the industry’s biggest companies raised hundreds of billions of dollars from investors but remained private.
Anthropic appears poised to beat rival OpenAI in the public markets, which could be an advantage for the startup if enthusiasm for AI wanes later. OpenAI also secretly filed for an IPO with the SEC in June, but did not provide further details.
