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鉅亨網 reports that Anthropic is considering an IPO that could raise as much as $100 billion at an approximately $2 trillion valuation. Citing The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter, the report says Anthropic may describe a potential annual market exceeding $30 trillion, based on the work its Claude AI models could theoretically perform across industries.
鉅亨網 reports that Anthropic, the developer of Claude, is preparing to tell investors in IPO materials that its total addressable market could exceed $30 trillion. The report attributes the information to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the company’s plans. Anthropic is said to be estimating the opportunity from the range of work that AI models could eventually perform, rather than from a single existing software market.
The article explains that total addressable market, or TAM, represents the theoretical annual revenue available if a company captured 100 percent of a defined market. It also notes that TAM estimates depend heavily on industry data and investment-bank models. Because the estimate concerns AI’s possible effects across many industries over a long period, the report says its credibility will depend on assumptions that are difficult to test today.
According to the report, Anthropic’s second-quarter revenue grew by more than 100 percent year over year to $11.6 billion. The company may seek up to $100 billion in IPO financing and target a valuation of about $2 trillion. The report says Anthropic expects to publish financial IPO documents within the next several weeks, with a listing potentially occurring as soon as September or early October. These plans remain under discussion, and no public filing confirming the figures is included in the source.
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The reported figures would place Anthropic’s proposed IPO among the largest ever and would show how aggressively frontier-AI companies are presenting their long-term economic opportunity to investors. The scale of the projection also highlights the gap between theoretical market potential and current revenue, making the assumptions behind AI expansion especially important to scrutinize.
The reported market estimate would be significant because it frames AI not as a narrow software category but as a potential substitute for or complement to work performed across many industries. That framing is central to how frontier-model companies may justify extraordinary valuations. It also makes the distinction between a theoretical market and realized demand essential: the source reports $11.6 billion in quarterly revenue, while the projected annual opportunity is more than 2,500 times that amount.
The comparison with SpaceX gives the report a broader financial-market context.鉅亨網 says SpaceX previously described a $28.5 trillion TAM in its IPO materials and called it the largest executable market in human history. Anthropic’s reported figure would exceed that estimate, while its possible $100 billion fundraising target would also exceed SpaceX’s reported $86 billion target and its possible $2 trillion valuation would exceed SpaceX’s reported $1.77 trillion IPO valuation.
The comparison also supplies a cautionary lesson. The source says SpaceX shares rose at the start of trading but later performed poorly, briefly falling below $105 in early August before trading near the reported $135 issue price. That example does not establish what Anthropic’s shares would do, but it shows why a large TAM estimate cannot by itself demonstrate durable revenue, profitability, investor returns, or public benefit. The source does not independently verify Anthropic’s figures, and it does not provide the assumptions, customer data, margins, or regulatory disclosures that would be needed to assess them.
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The key verification point is Anthropic’s IPO filing, which the report says could be made public in the coming weeks, potentially as early as September or early October. Investors and the public should watch whether the filing confirms the reported fundraising target, valuation, market-size estimate, revenue figures, and any risks or qualifications attached to them.
The first and most important development is a public IPO filing. The report says Anthropic could release financial documents in the coming weeks, possibly ahead of a September or early-October listing. A filing would clarify whether the company is actually seeking $100 billion, whether the proposed valuation is near $2 trillion, and whether the reported $30 trillion TAM appears as a formal company estimate or as an internal planning figure.
The filing should also reveal how Anthropic defines the market. A TAM based on every task that AI might eventually perform can include services that are not currently delivered by Claude, are not technically feasible at scale, or would face legal, economic, and organizational limits. The source does not identify the industries, tasks, adoption assumptions, pricing model, or time horizon behind the reported estimate. Those omissions are meaningful unknowns rather than evidence that the estimate is either correct or incorrect.
Investors should additionally examine the relationship between revenue growth and the proposed valuation. The article reports that quarterly revenue reached $11.6 billion after more than doubling year over year, but it does not provide profit, cash flow, customer concentration, infrastructure costs, retention, or forward commitments. It also does not independently confirm the planned offering, the fundraising amount, the valuation, or the expected listing date. Until Anthropic publishes formal documents or confirms the plans, the figures should be treated as reported possibilities rather than completed corporate actions. That distinction matters because reported intentions, preliminary targets, and completed transactions are not interchangeable. The eventual documents would provide the clearest record of what Anthropic is proposing, how management supports the figures, and which uncertainties it has disclosed. Until then, the report’s figures remain subject to revision as planning and market conditions develop.