Anthropic has pushed its target listing window from October to November 2026, giving investors a full quarter of financial results before the roadshow starts. The odds of an October debut have fallen to roughly 6%, while the AI company's annualized revenue run rate has already topped $65 billion.
Anthropic is nudging its initial public offering timeline by about a month. The Claude maker has moved its target listing window from October to November 2026, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on September 18, 2026. The odds of Anthropic going public before the end of October have fallen to roughly 6%.
Why the timeline shifted
The company wants to hand prospective investors a full set of third-quarter financial results before the roadshow begins. The marketing campaign is expected to start around mid-October, putting the listing in the weeks before the U.S. midterm elections in November, consistent with earlier Reuters reporting on the timeline.
CEO Dario Amodei has recently spoken publicly about the need for caution in AI development. However, the revised timeline is reported to have been set before those comments, so reading the delay as a strategic pivot on AI safety optics would be getting ahead of the story.
A revenue run rate near $65 billion
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion as of July 2026, with internal projections pointing to somewhere between $100 billion and $110 billion by year-end. Those figures sit behind what is shaping up to be one of the largest IPOs in history.
Discussions around the offering point to a potential valuation of roughly $2 trillion and expected proceeds of about $100 billion, which would eclipse SpaceX's IPO from June 2026. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Citi are set to lead underwriting.
How Anthropic got here
The company filed its draft S-1 registration with the SEC confidentially on June 1, 2026, beginning the formal process toward a public listing. Its most recent private fundraise, completed in May 2026, raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion. As part of its IPO preparations, Anthropic is also finalizing a $15 billion revolving credit facility.
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