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Anthropic (ANT) IPO

The model maker selling a stake in itself, decoded from its own filing.

$16.3B Revenue, first half of 2026 p. 22 14× Against the same half of 2025 p. 22 $114.5B Largest compute commitment owed regardless of use, Google p. 171 50.1% Votes held by one Class F share pp. 108, 247 BD·ANT·2026 · v1.2 · Updated Oct 28, 2026 · See changes Open the deck
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Where Anthropic stands today

Every IPO moves through five stages. Bellipo tracks each one from the filing record.

RADAR NOW Rumored or filed, no terms READY Terms set PING Priced STRIKE First trade ORBIT Trading Radar · Filed S-1 Oct 26, 2026 · no terms yet Next Ready, when the filing sets all terms: price, shares and a sourced expected date.
Anthropic owes Google at least $114.5B in compute, whether or not it uses it.

The company

What Anthropic sells, who pays for it, how it charges and who it competes with, as the S-1 states it.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation that develops advanced AI models and earns revenue from usage and from subscriptions. (pp. 138, F-14)

Founded 2021 p. 179 Legal form Delaware public benefit corporation p. 13 Employees About 5,300 p. 229 Mission “The responsible development and maintenance of advanced AI for the long-term benefit of humanity” p. 179 The product line
LayerProductWhat it doesPage
ModelsMythos (incl. Fable)Most capable class. Fable is generally available; Mythos goes to vetted cyber and life-science users
ModelsOpusWorkhorse for reasoning-heavy work; Opus 5.5 is the “enterprise daily driver”
ModelsSonnetBalance of performance, cost and speed for everyday tasks
ModelsHaikuLowest cost and fastest, for high-volume work
PlatformClaude PlatformTools for developers to build, run and manage agents: reasoning controls, tool use, long context, MCP, Agent Skills
PlatformAgent SDK / Managed AgentsThe harness behind Claude Code, on the customer's compute or Anthropic's
AppsClaude CodeCoding agent: plans, writes, tests and commits code
AppsClaude CoworkKnowledge-work agent that returns finished documents, sheets and decks
AppsClaude.aiThe flagship chat app; “top-of-funnel” for enterprise
AppsSecurity, Tag, Design, ScienceCyber defence, team agent in Slack, visual work, research workbench
VerticalsSeven industry solutionsIncluding Financial Services, Financial Advisors, Healthcare, Life Sciences
Launch dates the filing gives Claude, the first commercial product First quarter of 2023 (p. 61) Claude Code, research preview February 2025 (p. 191) Claude Cowork, research preview January 2026 (p. 191) How it makes money
ModelHow it bills20242025Jan to Jun 2026Page
Pay-for-intelligencePer token used, priced by the model chosen$288M (75%)$3.8B (83%)$13.1B (80%)
SubscriptionA fee for set usage, terms of 12 months or less$98M (25%)$789M (17%)$3.2B (20%)

Customers buy direct or through AWS, Google Cloud and Azure marketplaces. Anthropic keeps the contract and pays each cloud a fee. Growing numbers of enterprises sign annual or multi-year minimum-spend contracts.

Who pays
MeasureFigurePage
Customers at $100K+ a yearMore than 11,900 (Sep 30, 2026), up from about 20 at end of 2023
Customers at $1M+ a yearMore than 1,900
Customers at $10M+ a yearAbout 250
Net revenue retentionAbout 900% (Sep 30, 2026)
Using platform and an appOver 50%, up from about 30%
Largest single customerNone above 10% of revenue
How customers arriveSelf-serve and individual users first, then direct sales, Applied AI teams, cloud and consulting partners
Who it competes with
ArenaNamed in the filingAnthropic's stated edgePage
Frontier model labsOpenAI, Google and large tech companiesEnterprise focus, research talent, compute efficiency
Other model providersOpen-weight and open-source models, incl. from state actorsMost capable models for the hardest work, efficient on routine work
Application makersEnterprise software companies in select categoriesPrimarily a platform others build on
The status quoLegacy systems and resistance to changeNot stated
Source: Form S-1, filed Oct 26, 2026.

SourcesFrom the S-1 of Oct 26, 2026 · Open the filing

Why it matters

It is growing very fast Half-year revenue rose about fourteen-fold, and the business now brings cash in.It owes a huge compute bill Google, Amazon and Microsoft are owed spend whether or not Anthropic uses it.The founders keep control A single share carries a majority of the votes until a sunset path runs out.

Revenue, as filed

First-half 2026 revenue was about 14 times the first half of 2025.

Jan to Jun 2025 $1,163M Jan to Jun 2026 $16,286M Summary Consolidated Financial Data, p. 22. Filed periods only; no estimates or run-rate.

SourcesFrom the S-1 of Oct 26, 2026 · Open the filing

Where an $80.7B loss comes from

The operating loss was $693M. Most of the $80.7B net loss, $72.4B, is the change in fair value of convertible notes, derivative liabilities and SAFEs, driven mainly by the convertible notes rising with the company's valuation.

Operating loss ($693M) Interest income $1,111M Fair value of notes, derivatives, SAFEs ($72,388M) Other income (expense), net ($8,757M) Income taxes ($21M) Net loss ($80,748M) Summary Consolidated Financial Data, pp. 22–23; fair value driver, MD&A p. 150; other income detail, Notes p. F-37. Figures in $M, six months to Jun 30, 2026.

SourcesFrom the S-1 of Oct 26, 2026 · Open the filing

The cash turned

Runway is the wrong question for Jan to Jun 2026. Operating activities brought cash in: $3,929M in those six months, after three years of outflows.

($1,627M) ($5,692M) ($2,637M) ($1,513M) $3,929M 2023 2024 2025 Jan to Jun 2025 Jan to Jun 2026

Investing used ($17,181M) from Jan to Jun 2026, mostly ($18,972M) of short-term investments bought with new funding. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments stood at $131,651M on Jun 30, 2026.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, p. F-12; Balance Sheet Data, p. 24. Revenue for the same half: $16,286M.

SourcesFrom the S-1 of Oct 26, 2026 · Open the filing

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