Re:Anthropic IPO Valuation Talks Drop to $1.3T as Major Inve...
by nicce on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:14PM
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Wasn’t the regulation main hope to sustain the value? Otherwise open models come and eat the lunch.
Re:Anthropic IPO Valuation Talks Drop to $1.3T as Major Inve...
by KerrAvon on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:38PM
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This is a "not like that" situation. They wanted "AI safety" legislation guaranteeing them rent money. What they're likely getting is legislation to slow down data center buildout and make them more environmentally sane (more expensive upfront cost).
And open models are coming whether they like it or not.
Re:Anthropic IPO Valuation Talks Drop to $1.3T as Major Inve...
by KerrAvon on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:40PM
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Oh, and if the Dems take OpenAI and Anthropic's AI safety rhetoric at face value, nationalization and other forms of substantial government interference is on the table. A predictable outcome of irresponsible fear mongering!
Colossus 1 & Colossus 2 are located on Tennessee and Mississippi, and Anthropic rents both of them earlier this year.
Now that Democrats are surely going after Trump and Elon Musk and the sidekicks, and both Tennessee and Mississippi turned blue as well, this directly impacts the way Anthropic to source cheap compute and data in the future due to uncertainty around the continuation of SpaceX data centers. And other data center buildouts are likely to be paused for things like environmental impacts, the capacity constraints are likely going south, too.
Worse, the proposals around superintelligence is exactly what Anthropic is looking for: slow the fuck down. Now they got the killshot they long desired for, it obviously makes a dent in the capability and capacity of their AI, hence a drop in valuation. I think $800-900B is somewhere I would say okay, and $600-700B is really where it is fair, considering the long term outlook for Anthropic is looming with a greater AI massacre caused by political factors.