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How frontier AI companies are priced, including forward-revenue multiples and peer comparables.
Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9, a month later than planned, at a value investors put at $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion. Companies that build on its models would then rely on a supplier whose losses and price are debated in public.
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A three-week slip in the prospectus and a roadshow that could land days before the US midterms both sit downstream of a credit facility that has to close first, and of $90 billion in compute deals with a payment schedule that has not been disclosed.
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Listing talk near $2 trillion sits at about double the $965bn that Anthropic's last round set. The company has invalidated off-channel transfers of its stock, according to Crypto Briefing.
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Zoom's venture arm spent $97 million on Anthropic and now carries a multi-billion-dollar mark that other investors price and Zoom cannot yet sell, while the core business grew 5.5 percent last quarter.
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Brian McCarthy becomes OpenAI's first vice president of worldwide sales, arriving from a SpaceX that OpenAI stopped supplying three weeks ago. He is the new revenue chief's first hire, and two Snowflake sales leaders are moving over too.
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A16z's post to limited partners puts losses at 15 cents for every dollar invested and its Databricks stake at 20% of total AUM, and it uses both figures to argue that institutional venture allocations are too small.
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The contracts settle in tether and convey no stake, and their books hold tens of millions against an implied $2.12 trillion, so the first price anyone can actually transact at arrives with the prospectus.
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Forge counts seven of twenty VC-backed debuts trading above their IPO price. Figma, up 250% on day one, is 84.3% below its first-day close.
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A reported climb from about $9B to $65B of run rate in seven months is being priced off 2028 forecasts. Whoever lists first sets the multiple your existing AI marks get argued against.
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