Anthropic’s IPO Is About Six Times Oversubscribed

Detailed summary

Anthropic PBC’s initial public offering has drawn about six times the orders for the shares available, according to people familiar with the matter, as interest increases for potentially the biggest first-time share sale ever.

(Bloomberg) -- Anthropic PBC’s initial public offering has drawn about six times the orders for the shares available, according to people familiar with the matter, as interest increases for potentially the biggest first-time share sale ever.

The Claude AI model firm and its co-founders are seeking to raise as much as $64.4 billion in the IPO and $26 billion in a private placement, its filings show. Taken together, the offering would be bigger than SpaceX’s IPO, making it the biggest listing of all time.

Bankers have told prospective investors that existing backers will be prioritized by Anthropic, and some would-be buyers will receive smaller allocations than they expect, some of the people said.

Details of the IPO including the demand for shares could change, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public. A representative for Anthropic didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The surge of interest in Anthropic shares contrasts with investors pulling back support for Nvidia Corp. after Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was ousted from his post after reports of several affairs, including one with a woman suspected of spying for China.

The chipmaker has agreed to buy about $10 billion worth of shares in Anthropic as part of a $26 billion private placement concurrent with its IPO, the AI model firm’s filings show. Anthropic counts Nvidia as a strategic partner, and has committed tens of billions of dollars to deals securing access to its most advanced chips.

Anthropic is looking to bolster demand for the IPO with a campaign of events for prospective investors, including a live-streamed event with its Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon on Friday, a person familiar with the matter has said.

The company is targeting a fully diluted valuation of about $1.4 trillion, below where some investors expected the company to settle, Bloomberg News reported.

Anthropic’s filing Tuesday supported the…

Opening of the article, excerpted from Mint. To read the rest, open the article on the publisher's site.