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Meet Anthropic’s Seven Founders as the A.I. Firm Prepares for an IPO
Former OpenAI employees started the company in 2021 after disagreements over how to safely build artificial intelligence. An I.P.O. could make them billionaires.
Anthropic , the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, is preparing to go public in a debut that could value it at more than $1 trillion . That would turn the San Francisco start-up’s seven founders, who left OpenAI to create Anthropic in 2021 after disagreements with OpenAI executives over how A.I. should be built, into the latest tech billionaires.
Anthropic’s seven founders are each poised to hold a stake worth about $18 billion when the A.I. company goes public, according to an amended filing on Tuesday that set a price range of $70 to $78 a share for its initial public offering.
That range values Anthropic at $1.26 trillion to $1.41 trillion when all shares are counted. That is below the $2 trillion that bankers had floated this summer but above its $900 billion private valuation.
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