Anthropic's IPO filing discloses huge losses while chasing a $2 trillion valuation
The prospectus lays out massive losses, customer concentration and AI safety warnings alongside founder control of half the votes — pricing and governance both deserve scrutiny.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus discloses a net loss of $42 billion in 2025 on revenue of nearly $4.6 billion, even as the company eyes a $2 trillion valuation — more than double the $965 billion it was valued at four months ago.
According to The Verge, citing Reuters, the filing plans $518 billion in cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in the coming years; the Financial Times reports nearly a quarter of 2025 revenue came from just two clients. Eighty of the 261 pages warn that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."
On governance, the filing lays out a "Founder LLC" under which CEO Dario Amodei and the six other cofounders would hold 50.1 percent of voting power after listing. Note that these figures all reach us via The Verge's reporting on Reuters and FT; we have not read the prospectus itself, and some figures' exact bases remain to be checked.