In the few years since its inception, Anthropic has become one of the buzziest companies in tech. In their own words, they’re an AI enterprise that “puts safety at the frontier”. And this week they’re one step closer to going public with one of the biggest initial public offerings of all time, with expectations that they could raise up to $100-billion.
There’s a lot riding on this. Anthropic’s market debut could prove that either the AI boom is here to stay or that the mountains of money poured into the AI race were a bad bet.
With Erin Griffith, tech and business reporter at the New York Times, we look at what Anthropic’s 335-page pitch to investors and the Securities and Exchange Commission tells us about the company’s structure, finances and whether they can keep the AI train running.
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