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This Kalshi market asks whether Anthropic will IPO before OpenAI (by 2040). Key drivers are public statements from both companies about IPO plans, current funding/valuation trajectories, and any S-1 filings. Need market anchor plus news search on IPO intentions of both firms.

# Event Will Anthropic IPO before OpenAI (and before Jan 1, 2040)? # Outcomes to forecast - **Yes**: Anthropic confirms IPO first (before OpenAI and before 2040) - **No**: OpenAI IPOs first, or neither IPOs before 2040 # Kalshi market anchor **Current YES price: 75%** (Anthropic IPOs first) - 7-day change: **-3%** (slight pullback) - 30-day change: **+53%** (massive surge, likely driven by June 1 filing news) - Volume: 1,134 contracts/day — actively traded - 90-day range: 22%–98% # Sub-question answers 1. **Has Anthropic publicly announced or filed for an IPO?** — Yes. Anthropic officially confirmed it confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC on **June 1, 2026**, targeting an October 2026 Nasdaq listing. [anthropic.com, TechCrunch] 2. **Has OpenAI filed for an IPO, and what is its restructuring status?** — OpenAI confidentially filed ~May 22, 2026, targeting a September 2026 debut at $1T+ valuation. It completed its nonprofit-to-PBC restructuring on October 28, 2025. CFO Sarah Friar has internally preferred shifting to 2027. [Octagon AI, Yahoo Finance, CMC Markets] 3. **Current valuations and latest funding rounds?** — Anthropic: $965B valuation (Series H, $65B raised, May 2026, oversubscribed). OpenAI: $852B valuation ($122B round, SoftBank-led). [TechCrunch, Hargreaves Lansdown] 4. **Current Kalshi market price for Anthropic IPOing first?** — **75% YES** [Kalshi direct] 5. **Related prediction markets on OpenAI vs. Anthropic IPO timing?** — Kalshi shows Goldman Sachs at 77% to lead OpenAI's IPO; Morgan Stanley at 70% to lead Anthropic's IPO (down 19% in 7 days). No active Polymarket markets found on this question. [Kalshi related] # Key facts (high-confidence, factual) 1. [anthropic.com] Anthropic filed confidential S-1 on June 1, 2026 — days after OpenAI's ~May 22 confidential filing 2. [TechCrunch] Anthropic raised $65B Series H at $965B valuation; annualized revenue $47B as of May 2026 3. [Bitmex] Anthropic targets October 2026 Nasdaq listing; not profitable, expects profitability ~2028 4. [CMC Markets] OpenAI targets late 2026/early 2027 listing at $1T valuation; projects $14B loss in 2026 5. [Wikipedia] OpenAI PBC restructuring completed; 26% owned by nonprofit foundation 6. [Octagon AI] Musk lawsuit against OpenAI dismissed — cleared major IPO obstacle 7. [Kalshi] Anthropic IPO lead underwriter Morgan Stanley at 70% (dropped 19% in 7 days — uncertainty rising) # Cross-market signals - **Kalshi (this market):** 75% Anthropic first — surged +53% in 30 days on filing news, slight 3% pullback - **Kalshi (lead banks):** Goldman Sachs 77% for OpenAI; Morgan Stanley 70% for Anthropic (notable recent weakness -19%) - **Polymarket:** No active markets found on this question - **Sportsbook:** N/A # Analyst opinions and speculation - Anthropic's filing came 10 days after OpenAI's but was publicly confirmed first, giving it "structural lead" per CNBC [CNBC] - OpenAI CFO internally preferred 2027 timing — suggests September 2026 target is aspirational [Octagon AI] - Daniela Amodei framed IPO as capital necessity for compute costs, suggesting strong motivation to execute [TechCrunch] - Both companies unprofitable; market conditions (macro, AI sentiment) could delay either # Directional lean per outcome - **Yes (Anthropic first):** Anthropic's October 2026 target vs. OpenAI's September 2026 target is close, but Anthropic's filing was publicly confirmed first; higher valuation ($965B vs $852B); oversubscribed raise signals demand; OpenAI CFO prefers 2027 delay; 75% Kalshi consensus - **No (OpenAI first or neither):** OpenAI filed ~10 days earlier (May 22 vs June 1); OpenAI targets September vs Anthropic's October; OpenAI has larger brand/revenue base; Morgan Stanley lead odds dropped 19% (uncertainty); both face macro/market condition risks; neither has set final date/price/shares # Gaps / unknowns - Neither company has set share count, price range, ticker, or exchange (as of June 2026) - SEC review timelines uncertain for both - Morgan Stanley's 19% drop in 7 days may signal Anthropic IPO slippage rumors - Market conditions between now and Oct/Sep 2026 could delay either - Resolution criteria: does a confidential S-1 filing count, or must the IPO actually price/trade? # Calibration anchors - **Kalshi current YES price: 75%** (primary anchor) - Anthropic confirmed filing publicly first; OpenAI CFO prefers delay → supports >50% - Very close race with overlapping timelines → significant uncertainty; 75% seems reasonable but slightly high given OpenAI's earlier actual filing date and September target - The 30-day +53% surge suggests market moved on the June 1 news; current 75% likely near fair value given available information

1. Both forecasters treat OpenAI's CFO preference for 2027 as strong evidence favoring Anthropic, but the brief notes this was an *internal* preference, not a public commitment or board decision — OpenAI's official target remains September 2026, so this signal is softer than both forecasters imply. 2. Neither forecaster adequately weights the "neither IPOs before 2040" scenario embedded in the No outcome. Both companies are unprofitable (OpenAI projects $14B loss in 2026, Anthropic expects profitability only ~2028), and macro/AI sentiment shocks could delay or cancel both; this tail is meaningful and partially absorbed into No but not explicitly discussed. 3. Both forecasters underweight the resolution ambiguity flagged in the brief: the question requires an actual IPO (pricing/trading), not a confidential S-1 filing — yet the 30-day +53% surge and current 75% price appear to have been driven by filing news, potentially creating a market mispricing between "filed first" and "IPOed first." 4. OpenAI's earlier filing date (May 22 vs. June 1) and earlier target month (September vs. October) are treated as roughly offsetting Anthropic's public confirmation advantage, but neither forecaster explicitly models the probability that a ~10-day filing head start plus one-month earlier target actually translates to OpenAI listing first — this asymmetry arguably deserves more weight toward No than either assigns. 5. The Morgan Stanley lead-underwriter odds dropping 19% in seven days is a live market signal of Anthropic IPO slippage risk that both forecasters mention but neither quantifies or anchors to — if a sophisticated market is repricing Anthropic's underwriter odds that sharply, the 75% Kalshi price may itself be stale relative to the most current information.

66% (50% confidence)

Yes: 66% No: 34%

Anchoring near but below the 75% Kalshi price given the critique's valid points: OpenAI filed ~10 days earlier with a September target vs Anthropic's October, the CFO 2027 preference is only internal, Morgan Stanley underwriter odds dropped 19% signaling Anthropic slippage, and there's a non-trivial tail of neither IPOing by 2040. Anthropic still has the edge from public confirmation, oversubscribed demand, and capital urgency, supporting a Yes lean but tighter than the market price.

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