Anthropic Faces IPO Test as Amodei Urges AI Slowdown Amid $2 Trillion Valuation Talks

Anthropic is heading toward a potential public-market debut while asking the AI industry to slow the development of its most capable models. The contradiction is becoming the central test for the Claude maker: investors are weighing reports of a possible $100 billion raise at about a $2 trillion valuation, while CEO Dario Amodei argues that frontier systems are advancing faster than safety work can keep up.