# Anthropic Is Preparing an IPO It Expects to Match or Beat SpaceX's Record Setting Size > The maker of Claude is said to be readying a public filing as soon as the end of this month, with expectations that its offering could rival or exceed the 86 billion dollars SpaceX raised in the largest first time share sale ever. - Source: Continental - Canonical URL: https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-spacex-record-size - Author: Continental Newsroom - Section: Business - Published: 2026-08-22T15:54:58.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-22T15:54:58.000Z - Tags: Anthropic, IPO, SpaceX --- Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of AI models, is preparing for a public offering it expects could match or exceed the record set by SpaceX, according to people familiar with the matter. The company is said to be working through the numbers as it readies a public filing as soon as the end of this month. SpaceX currently holds the record for the largest first time share sale ever, having raised 75 billion dollars at the outset before the total climbed to 86.2 billion dollars once the overallotment option, typically exercised when shares rise in early trading, was included. Anthropic matching or topping that figure would mark one of the largest public offerings in history for a company still just a few years removed from its founding. Discussions around the IPO remain in progress, and people familiar with the matter caution that the eventual size could still change before any filing becomes official. Recent briefings for investors led by chief financial officer Krishna Rao have reportedly steered around direct questions about what valuation the company is targeting, leaving the market to draw its own conclusions from the size of the offering itself. The scale of the expected raise reflects the broader rush of investor money into artificial intelligence, with backers eager for a way to gain direct exposure to the companies building the technology's most advanced models. Anthropic, alongside rivals such as OpenAI, has raised money at a pace few private companies have matched, and a public listing of this size would be one of the clearest signals yet of how much capital investors are willing to commit to the sector. Should Anthropic proceed at anything close to the scale being discussed, it would place the company alongside SpaceX in a very small group of businesses that have used a single offering to raise tens of billions of dollars at once, underscoring how central AI has become to where large pools of investment capital are being directed. --- Originally published by Continental. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://continental.today/article/anthropic-ipo-spacex-record-size.