Sam Altman was scammed, Company A steps on the gas to sprint for IPO, raising funds to rival SpaceX.

That's insane.

After calling for the entire industry to hit the brakes, your Company A's IPO is still moving full steam ahead.

Bloomberg broke the news that Anthropic has selected Nasdaq as its listing venue, and will ring the bell as early as October this year.

You little guy, after all this time, it turns out you still want to use "nuclear-level" capabilities to wildly jack up your valuation!!!

It's also making a sky-high demand for financing scale, claiming it will at least match SpaceX's fundraising amount.

Musk, Musk, even you have ended up being used as a unit of measurement one day...

Company A's Brilliant Marketing Trick

Your Dario has long been immersed in his own performance and cannot pull himself out.

This weekend, Company A's signature trick played out again: Dario published a long post calling on the AI industry to hit the brakes.

Who could have guessed that hey, people actually showed up to give him face: Sam Altman and Elon Musk both echoed his call.

Your Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis also spoke out quietly, but it's a pity that after Google lost its leading position in coding, Hassabis basically has no real influence left, and the position of the big three in the AI industry has long been taken over by Musk.

But right after that, the totally absurd moment came...

Company A was exposed to still be rushing its IPO at full speed, as early as October this year.

On one hand it shouts "AI is dangerous, we need to slow down", on the other hand it's sprinting for "the largest IPO in history".

Yep, that's so typical of Company A.

Company A's IPO Progress Bar

Let's look at the core information from this exclusive report.

Listing venue: Nasdaq.

Timetable: as early as October this year.

Financing scale: on par with or even exceeding SpaceX's.

What does "on par with" mean?

SpaceX just rang the bell on Nasdaq this June, raising a total of 863 billion US dollars, setting a new record for US stock IPOs in history.

What Company A means is that this time it will set another new record.

Wait a second, what happened to the promised brake???

In terms of valuation, the previously widely reported target is at the 2 trillion US dollar level.

That's already close to the market cap of established giants like Amazon and Meta.

I seriously suspect Company A mixed up left and right, and pressed the accelerator instead of the brake.

Ever since it focused on coding capabilities, Company A's financing progress has been advancing as fast as a rocket ride.

March 2025: Series E round, post-money valuation at 61.5 billion US dollars.

September 2025: Series F round, raising 130 billion US dollars, valuation at 183 billion US dollars.

February 2026: Series G round, raising 300 billion US dollars, valuation at 380 billion US dollars.

May 2026: Series H round, raising 650 billion US dollars, with a post-money valuation of 965 billion US dollars, surpassing OpenAI's 852 billion US dollars in one go and becoming the world's most valuable AI startup.

In just 14 months, its valuation has increased by nearly 16 times.

But to be fair, Company A's commercial prospects are indeed outstanding. By the end of July, its ARR exceeded 650 billion US dollars, more than 7 times higher than the figure at the end of last year.

You know, at the beginning of 2025, this number was only 10 billion US dollars...

Programmers are really capable of generating massive revenue, directly helping Company A skyrocket and overtake OpenAI in a corner.

Even so, Company A is still extremely short of capital to this day.

The 10-year AWS commitment worth over 1 trillion US dollars, the TPU expansion partnerships with Google and Broadcom, plus the computing power cluster project for SpaceX, all of these are capital guzzlers.

Computing power is indeed a bottomless pit, otherwise it probably wouldn't be in such a hurry to go public.

In contrast, OpenAI is totally taking things easy.

Your cyber godfather Tibo has reset the product roadmap countless times since Astra, and has turned the Agent battle into a food delivery war...

Back to the IPO topic.

From the perspective of the whole market, Company A's upcoming listing will further ignite the capital enthusiasm on Nasdaq.

The total amount of funds raised through US stock IPOs this year has reached 1606 billion US dollars, the highest record since 2021.

Nasdaq alone has hosted 4 of the largest listings, including SpaceX and SK Hynix.

If Anthropic really raises more than 863 billion US dollars this time, it will push this total figure up by a huge margin.

One More Thing

By the way, there's one more thing.

This time Company A called for pausing AI research, and OpenAI echoed the call, right?

I was totally stunned when I saw that.

They clearly showed total disdain for each other on stage before, not even willing to shake hands, but this time Sam Altman behaved so generously.

I thought we were finally going to see the plot where they shake hands and make up to fight a common big villain together.

Today I finally see through it all.

Right after reposting Dario's blog post, Sam Altman immediately gave an interview to Fortune.

Going public right now is by no means a wise move.

We still have a huge amount of work on our hands, and we need to have the ability to make decisions that on the surface do not seem to be in the interests of the company and its shareholders.

???

Wait a minute, from all the previous rumors, OpenAI never planned to go public this year in the first place...

When it comes to seizing the final big win.

It siphoned off all the traffic that was there to cheer for Company A's face-saving project, and framed OpenAI as the party that cares most about AI safety.

Tsk tsk tsk, Dario is still way too naive.

Have you forgotten how your big brother Sam made a fool out of Elon Musk back in the day?

Reference links:

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-13/anthropic-said-to-choose-nasdaq-for-much-anticipated-ipo-listing

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ipo-sam-altman-ai-safety-concerns-2026-9

This article is from the WeChat official account "QbitAI", author: Focus on cutting-edge technology, published with authorization from 36Kr.