[Linkpost] “The Anthropic IPO Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready for It.” by AISR

More money is coming than AI safety has ever seen. The capacity to deploy it doesn't exist yet.

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Note: Catherio in the comments pointed out that although Anthropic is pursuing IPO readiness, they are not certain to IPO. As OscarD pointed out, based on this Manifold Market, there is roughly a 75% chance of an IPO within the next year.

With that said, the argument below holds regardless of exact timing-- the pledges have been made, and the capital is coming, whether via IPO, secondary sales, or further private rounds.

1. The Anthropic IPO is coming

This week, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview– a model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that the company decided to wait to release it publicly. Last month, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic's annualized revenue had hit 19 billion dollars, doubling in under four months, and by some accounts surpassing OpenAI. It is currently one of the most valuable private companies on the planet.

Anthropic is also probably going to IPO, possibly as soon as October 2026. When it does, a few thousand people, including some of the wealthiest people on the planet, will become liquid, and a meaningful fraction of those [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) More money is coming than AI safety has ever seen. The capacity to deploy it doesn't exist yet.

(00:54) 1. The Anthropic IPO is coming

(04:08) 2. The constraint is talent, not funding

(06:17) 3. We don't just need more bets- we need decorrelated ones

(09:10) 3a. Different structural positions

(09:49) 3b. Independent grantmakers with different worldviews

(10:35) 4. The Pitch: Consider becoming a grantmaker or founding something new

(13:15) 5. The window is brief

(14:12) 6. Next Steps

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First published:
April 12th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ychu2LAw54sNcocKH/the-anthropic-ipo-is-coming-we-aren-t-ready-for-it

Linkpost URL:
https://thecounterfactual.substack.com/p/the-anthropic-ipo-is-coming-we-arent

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