Anthropic has retained the services of a law firm to lay the groundwork for its possible initial public offering (IPO) next year, setting the stage for a listing race against OpenAI. In the meantime, Anthropic is in the process of securing a funding round that would value the company at over $300 billion, underscoring the colossal demand for capital in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. The company that manages to go public first will serve as a litmus test for the public market's willingness to embrace rapidly growing, heavily invested AI startups and could potentially rank among the largest IPOs ever witnessed.
