# Anthropic Prepares for October IPO as Fable 5 Dominance Solidifies

> Anthropic is reportedly organizing investor meetings for a large-scale IPO in October, planning to trade under the ticker ANTH. If it happens, the AI lab would beat its chief rival to the public markets by a wide margin, since OpenAI has pushed its own offering to 2027. The timing is not accidental. Anthropic's Fable 5 currently sits at the top of independent intelligence rankings, and going public while your model leads is a good way to command a premium valuation. The company has leaned into enterprise, legal and traditional industries, sectors that adopt AI more slowly but tend to stick with vendors they trust, which is exactly the kind of durable revenue public investors reward. An IPO would also mark a turning point for the industry. Frontier AI has been funded largely by private megarounds and strategic partners, and a splashy listing would drag the economics into public view, forcing quarterly disclosure of just how much it costs to run a leading lab, and whether the business underneath the hype actually holds up.

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## Wortins' read

Anthropic is reportedly organizing investor meetings for a large-scale IPO in October, planning to trade under the ticker ANTH. If it happens, the AI lab would beat its chief rival to the public markets by a wide margin, since OpenAI has pushed its own offering to 2027. The timing is not accidental. Anthropic's Fable 5 currently sits at the top of independent intelligence rankings, and going public while your model leads is a good way to command a premium valuation. The company has leaned into enterprise, legal and traditional industries, sectors that adopt AI more slowly but tend to stick with vendors they trust, which is exactly the kind of durable revenue public investors reward. An IPO would also mark a turning point for the industry. Frontier AI has been funded largely by private megarounds and strategic partners, and a splashy listing would drag the economics into public view, forcing quarterly disclosure of just how much it costs to run a leading lab, and whether the business underneath the hype actually holds up.

## Source

[Read the full story at GuruFocus](https://www.gurufocus.com/news/8960658/anthropic-prepares-for-potential-ipo-outpacing-openai)

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