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Anthropic IPO funding and AI coding race
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In early July 2026 Anthropic signalled signaled a shift to public‑market financing by preparing a major IPO, citing the soaring cost of compute costs that it is meeting with a $15 billion investment in SpaceX‑run data‑center capacity. The firm highlighted its Claude chatbot, especially the Claude Code variant that now self‑generates most of its code, and warned that recursive self‑improvement could accelerate an intelligence explosion. Anthropic also pledged a total of $40 million to Public First Action, a U.S. advocacy group pushing for stricter AI regulation. The first $20 million was contributed in February; the second $20 million was announced on 22 July, timed ahead of the November mid‑term elections and earmarked solely for public education and policy work. Public First Action, backed by Anthropic, campaigns against federal attempts to pre‑empt state AI laws, while a rival group, Leading the Future, supported by OpenAI, advocates a more flexible national framework. Observers have described Anthropic’s contributions as “dark money” influencing policy before the technology is fully understood. At the same time, market Market observers noted heightened speculation about which of the two AI leaders leader will list first. Prediction‑market data from Kalshi consistently show most bets favor OpenAI over Anthropic for an earlier IPO, underscoring investor interest in valuation and strategic routes as both firms move toward public listings. A later July update revealed that Anthropic’s Claude Code was generating roughly $2.5 billion in annualized revenue by February 2026—about 20 % of Anthropic’s total business—while OpenAI’s Codex posted just over $1 billion. Despite Anthropic’s lead in coding‑tool revenue, Kalshi traders still weighted the odds toward OpenAI filing its IPO first. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman cited efforts to close the gap, including the launch of GPT‑5.5, a brief TikTok‑inspired user‑experience study for its AI‑video app Sora, and a collapsed $3 billion acquisition attempt of the AI‑coding startup Windsurf.
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