Banks seek to raise Anthropic IPO price above $70-$78 range, FT reports

In documents submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Anthropic, the company behind the AI agent Claude, said it expects a share price of $70-78. Including employee options and special shares, that would give the company a market capitalisation of around $1.4 trillion, or almost SEK 14,000 billion.

But the banks, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are aiming for a market capitalisation of $1.5 trillion or more, the newspaper reports, citing five anonymous sources.

If the share price can be raised above the $70-78 range, the amount Anthropic raises from new investors in connection with the listing would increase from an estimated $64 billion.

In addition, strategic partners such as Google, Nvidia and Microsoft will buy $26 billion worth of Anthropic shares in connection with the listing.