The company announced on Monday that it had submitted confidential paperwork to US regulators, a process that allows firms to begin IPO preparations without immediately disclosing detailed financial information.
The move comes amid intense investor enthusiasm around artificial intelligence, with AI companies attracting billions of dollars in funding and driving a significant portion of recent gains in global technology stocks.
Anthropic, which is backed by major investors including Amazon and Google, is best known for its Claude family of AI models, which compete with products from OpenAI and other leading AI firms.
The planned listing is expected to serve as a major test of whether public market investors are willing to support the high valuations and growth expectations that have fuelled the AI boom over the past two years.
The filing comes at a time when AI companies are racing to expand computing capacity, develop more advanced models and secure enterprise customers, while facing rising costs linked to data centres, chips and infrastructure.
Details regarding the size of the offering, valuation and timing of the IPO have not yet been disclosed. Those details are expected to emerge once Anthropic files its public prospectus with US regulators.
If completed, the IPO could become one of the largest technology listings in recent years and a key milestone in Wall Street’s growing focus on artificial intelligence.