why did they raise 3 days ago? What's the benefit of doing this instead of going public right away? If it's just cash to pay for GPUs, can't they issue bonds or something?
Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
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Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#72why did they raise 3 days ago? What's the benefit of doing this instead of going public right away? If it's just cash to pay for GPUs, can't they issue bonds or something?
Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#73If OpenAI and Anthropic eventually become public companies with trillion-dollar valuations, it will be interesting to see if their company ethos remains the same. With that much purchasing power, it's very tempting to gobble up competitors and raise prices.
Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the contents of the submission that are confidential, not the fact that they are submitting. The contents themselves contain a lot of detailed information about the internals of the company including financials, revenue, ownership details etc... those details are what's confidential until the SEC gives its approval, at which point the public can then review the document.
What this means it that it won't survive scrutiny, so better hide it so that there is only a small amount of time to do it.
Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#75There is a mad rush to get these IPOs out the door before the market sneezes.
It's more insidious than that. These IPOs aren't being rushed, they were waiting for all the pieces to be in place to force 401ks and other retirement plans to buy these IPOs. The most recent change was the NASDAQ adopting the "fast change rule" which allows newly IPO'd companies to be listed in the index after only 15 days of trading. This rule was decided March 30, 2026 and only came into effect May 1, 2026. The pl…
Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#76Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#77If OpenAI and Anthropic eventually become public companies with trillion-dollar valuations, it will be interesting to see if their company ethos remains the same. With that much purchasing power, it's very tempting to gobble up competitors and raise prices.
The real competition is coming out of China right now and I doubt the Chinese government is going to let them buy out their "fast follower" AI companies that are consistently 6-12 months behind in terms of quality. That said, I'm factoring quality as in Opus 4.5/Sonnet 4.5/GPT-5.5 as break points since I haven't really seen an improvement since that point when using AI.
Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#78There is a mad rush to get these IPOs out the door before the market sneezes.
It's more insidious than that. These IPOs aren't being rushed, they were waiting for all the pieces to be in place to force 401ks and other retirement plans to buy these IPOs. The most recent change was the NASDAQ adopting the "fast change rule" which allows newly IPO'd companies to be listed in the index after only 15 days of trading. This rule was decided March 30, 2026 and only came into effect May 1, 2026. The pl…
Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#79After years of companies refusing to go public (looking at you Stripe), it's almost refreshing to see a hyped tech go actually IPO.
Re: Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
#80There is a mad rush to get these IPOs out the door before the market sneezes.
It's more insidious than that. These IPOs aren't being rushed, they were waiting for all the pieces to be in place to force 401ks and other retirement plans to buy these IPOs. The most recent change was the NASDAQ adopting the "fast change rule" which allows newly IPO'd companies to be listed in the index after only 15 days of trading. This rule was decided March 30, 2026 and only came into effect May 1, 2026. The pl…