Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation

Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by tristanj on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:28PM (#50387392)

I would not be surprised at all if the US government ends up taking a 10% stake in each of OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by MattDamonSpace on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:39PM (#50387475)

I would

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Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by greggsy on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:45PM (#50387510)

In the same way they famously invested 10% in Intel, which has proved volatile at best?

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Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by ivewonyoung on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:15PM (#50387727)

They didn't "invest". The Dems gave Intel free money to invest in fabs. The next President said the US public got ripped off by that and got a 10% stake "for free" to try and make up for it.

It was worth $8.9 billion when the US govt got it "for free". It's worth $23B today, even after the big drops recently. How is the US public worse off?

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Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by rudedogg on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:54PM (#50387583)

Yeah fuck that. They can fail. Then the next companies know not to take the same (losing?) path.

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Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by 10111001 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:47PM (#50388342)

> Yeah fuck that. If they fail, they fail.

Yes. Personally I'd prefer the US government get its stake from a bankruptcy court for pennies on the dollar.

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Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by strange_quark on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:47PM (#50388348)

After Tuesday no way in hell that’s happening.

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Re:Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $... by dofm on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:50PM (#50388369)

OpenAI are openly suggesting 5%, but my instinct is that this is because they think Trump is foolish enough to demand double that.

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