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Michael Burry Urges Market Selloff to Block OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs

September 29, 2026 at 22:30 EDT

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Michael Burry has escalated his criticism of the frontier-AI boom, arguing that a hard market break would be preferable if it derailed prospective IPOs by OpenAI and Anthropic. The comment lands as both labs are under pressure to reconcile safety warnings, enormous compute spending and public-market ambitions.

Sept. 29, 2026 | Frontier AI IPOs

Burry puts AI IPOs in the blast radius

The investor's warning reframes OpenAI and Anthropic's safety debate as a market test of capital needs, valuation and trust.

>$2T

possible Anthropic IPO valuation

$518B

future infrastructure obligations

$42B

2025 net loss

20%

estimated monitoring overhead

Obligations tower over cash

Same-unit comparison in billions of dollars: one block represents about $20B.

$20.28B

cash and short-term investments

$518B

future cloud and infrastructure obligations

The pressure loop

Safety alarms

→

IPO scrutiny

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Capital access

The debate now links model control, investor confidence and the ability to finance frontier-scale compute.

Safety case

Labs point to autonomous-model failures, cyber capability and the need for stronger monitoring before scaling further.

Skeptical read

Critics argue slowdown talk can defend incumbents, temper competition and support high valuations before public offerings.

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