Anthropic plans pre-IPO investor day on October 14

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI models, plans to hold an investor day on October 14, according to Bloomberg. The event is meant to prepare the market for its upcoming initial public offering. What Anthropic is bringing to the pitch The company filed its IPO paperwork with the SEC in June 2026. It is aiming for a late-2026 listing, expected after the November US midterm elections. The investor day is part of a broader marketing push expected to start around mid-October. Its purpose is to introduce prospective buyers to the company and how it operates before shares actually hit the market. The headline number in the filings is growth. Anthropic reported nearly $4.6 billion in revenue for 2025, a 12-fold increase from the year before. The forward-looking numbers are even larger. Anthropic projects an annualized run rate of over $65 billion by July 2026, with expectations of $100 billion to $200 billion by 2028. Then come the costs. The filings show an operating loss of $8.06 billion and a net loss of $42 billion for the same year. The price of building frontier AI Anthropic has committed at least $518 billion to AI infrastructure over the next decade. Much of that stems fr...