Hard Fork · Friday, October 30, 2026
Host Max Reed and reporter Erin Griffith discuss the frontier lab Anthropic filing papers for its Wall Street debut. The company might raise $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, representing the first pure-play large language model company to go public and open its books.
“That's because the frontier lab Anthropic is going public. Anthropic gets ready to make its Wall Street debut as the AI giant. AI giant Anthropic. That's the company. San Francisco based AI giant Anthropic file papers today. It might raise $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation and rescue a whole slew of companies floundering in the debt market.”