Anthropic files S-1 to list on Nasdaq under ticker ANT
Original title: [AINews] Anthropic files for $2T IPO in 2 weeks: 1400% growth rate, 48% of revenue through cloud partners, 85% margin, $1B op profit in Q2, $134B cash in bank and $10B lifetime burn
The filing reports $16.3 billion in H1 2026 revenue, an 85% gross margin, and disputed cash and burn totals.
Anthropic publicly filed its S-1 on Monday and plans to list on Nasdaq as ANT. It reported Q2 revenue of $11.6 billion and operating profit of $974 million, while an $80.7 billion first-half net loss included $81.1 billion of non-cash charges. About 48% of H1 2026 revenue ran through Bedrock, Vertex and Azure Marketplace. Anthropic also disclosed a delayed frontier-model pre-training run and compute commitments, including up to $120.5 billion for NVIDIA-powered compute through SpaceXAI.
Unconfirmed: Accounts disagree on cash and lifetime burn, and a cited $16.8 billion Q3 figure is not in the S-1.
- Aggregate capital raised was $141.1 billion, including Amazon and Google convertible notes.
- Cash was $112.4 billion plus $19.3 billion in short-term investments.
- SemiAnalysis estimates lifetime burn near $9.7 billion; another account cites $9.4 billion.
- Altimeter said it will take a major additional stake in the IPO.
- The lockup is staggered for more than a year, with some day-one sales.
- AI models
- Claude
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