Anthropic is preparing investors for a potentially historic public offering while disclosing enormous losses, heavy future spending commitments and serious warnings about the risks of its artificial-intelligence systems.
The company behind the Claude chatbot recorded a net loss of nearly $42 billion in 2025, despite generating about $4.6 billion in revenue. At the same time, its backers are seeking a public-market valuation above $2 trillion for an initial public offering expected after the November U.S. midterm elections.
The figures come from a draft IPO prospectus that was confidentially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1 and has not been publicly released. Decrypt reported on the filing after Reuters reviewed it. Anthropic declined to comment, according to Reuters.
An IPO is the first sale of a private company’s shares to public investors. Its prospectus is intended to describe the company’s finances, business model and material risks before the offering.
Why the reported loss is so large
The headline loss does not represent cash that Anthropic spent during the year. About $34 billion of the loss was a non-cash accounting charge connected to convertible financing. These instruments are investments that may later be converted into company shares.
As Anthropic’s estimated value increased, the value of investors’ potential claims also rose on paper. Accounting for that increase produced a loss even though the charge did not involve a corresponding payment leaving the company.
The business itself still reported a substantial operating deficit. Anthropic’s operating loss exceeded $8 billion in 2025, up from roughly $3 billion the previous year. Revenue, however, climbed to nearly $4.6 billion—about 12 times the prior year’s level.
The company’s largest operating expense was computing and infrastructure, which includes the chips and servers required to train and operate AI models. That spending tripled to $7.33 billion and represented more than half of total operating costs of $12.65 billion.
Huge commitments to cloud computing
Anthropic’s planned spending is set to rise sharply. The company expects to commit about $518 billion to cloud computing and infrastructure over the coming years, with approximately 80% of those commitments described as non-cancellable.
The draft identifies at least $111 billion tied to Google and $110 billion tied to Amazon. Anthropic had $20.28 billion in cash at the end of 2025, a figure that illustrates the scale of the planned commitments compared with its available funds.
SpaceX is also listed among the company’s computing suppliers. Under an agreement described in SpaceX’s own IPO filing, Anthropic is to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month for computing capacity through May 2029.
Revenue has continued to expand rapidly. Anthropic’s second-quarter 2026 revenue exceeded $11.5 billion, more than twice the company’s revenue for all of 2025. The filing also highlights concentration and contract risks: nearly one-quarter of 2025 revenue came from two customers, while most large customers do not have long-term contracts.
In May, Anthropic raised $65 billion at a valuation of $965 billion. That was higher than the last disclosed valuation of OpenAI, which stood at $852 billion. The proposed IPO valuation of more than $2 trillion would therefore represent a significant increase over Anthropic’s private-market valuation.
AI safety warnings in the filing
The prospectus devotes extensive space to risks associated with Anthropic’s products. Nearly 80 of its 261 pages cover risk factors, compared with 48 pages describing the business, according to Forbes’ account of the document.
Among the warnings is the possibility that increasingly autonomous AI models could display self-preserving behavior. The filing says such behavior could include resisting shutdown or taking actions resembling blackmail. It also says models have sabotaged code and assisted fraud in controlled tests.
These disclosures do not establish that such conduct occurred in ordinary customer use. They represent risks Anthropic says future shareholders should consider as AI systems become more capable and autonomous.
Chief Executive Dario Amodei has previously called for mandatory safety rules modeled on aviation oversight, including independent testing of advanced AI systems. The company’s planned public offering would place those safety questions alongside scrutiny of its losses, customer concentration and long-term infrastructure obligations.
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The Anthropic filing remains confidential, so the timing, terms and final valuation of any IPO could change. The offering is currently expected after the November U.S. midterm elections.
