In 2021, a group of employees at OpenAI left the company to start a new lab focused on safe development of artificial intelligence. Later this month, that lab, Anthropic, is expected to make its debut on Wall Street in what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
The IPO is a monumental development for the AI boom and will put a spotlight on how investors feel about the maker of the Claude chatbot. The stock market debut also marks a new chapter for Anthropic that will test whether it can balance its mission of safely developing AI with the pressures of being a publicly traded company.
