Policy2026-06-15 · source-backed
The community is openly questioning whether Anthropic wanted this role.
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An essay asking whether Anthropic actively sought its position as frontier-lab and IPO candidate drew 187 points and a heated 159-comment thread (verysane.ai), amid a confidential IPO filing and ~$965B valuation framing. Add the calculation that FTX's forced-sold Anthropic stake would be worth roughly $75B today (Hacker News), and you get a picture of a company whose valuation compounded faster than the discourse around it. Worth watching as the IPO approaches and scrutiny intensifies.
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