# Anthropic is in talks to make Nvidia an anchor investor in its IPO

> Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia on as an anchor investor in its planned IPO, Reuters reports, in what would be one of the largest debuts the industry has seen. The company is said to be seeking up to $100 billion at a valuation of roughly $2 trillion, with Nvidia potentially putting in as much as $10 billion. The pairing is notable beyond the numbers. Nvidia already sits at the center of the AI economy as the dominant supplier of training chips, and anchoring the IPO of a leading model developer would deepen the web of ties between the company selling the picks and shovels and the companies mining the gold. If the figures hold, a $2 trillion valuation would place Anthropic among the most valuable companies on earth before it has even gone public, a vivid measure of how much capital is chasing frontier AI. The talks are still early and terms could change, but the ambition on display says plenty about the moment.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Reuters · Published Saturday, September 12, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia on as an anchor investor in its planned IPO, Reuters reports, in what would be one of the largest debuts the industry has seen. The company is said to be seeking up to $100 billion at a valuation of roughly $2 trillion, with Nvidia potentially putting in as much as $10 billion. The pairing is notable beyond the numbers. Nvidia already sits at the center of the AI economy as the dominant supplier of training chips, and anchoring the IPO of a leading model developer would deepen the web of ties between the company selling the picks and shovels and the companies mining the gold. If the figures hold, a $2 trillion valuation would place Anthropic among the most valuable companies on earth before it has even gone public, a vivid measure of how much capital is chasing frontier AI. The talks are still early and terms could change, but the ambition on display says plenty about the moment.

## Source

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