Anthropic targets 64.4 billion IPO, nearing SpaceX's record

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19. As the speed of artificial intelligence development has become increasingly controversial, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among those calling for top AI labs to pace the frontier" in order to prioritize safety. Anthropic and some of its shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $64.4 billion in an initial public offering, stopping short of targeting more than SpaceX gathered in its record-setting first-time share sale. The Claude chatbot maker is marketing shares in its IPO for $70 to $78 each, according to a filing on Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Anthropic is offering 801.4 million shares, while backers are selling 23.6 million shares. At the top of the price range, Anthropic would have a market value of about $1 trillion, based on the shares outstanding listed in the filing.