Ahead of IPO, Anthropic's Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI returns

Private investors have been happy, one piece Anthropic as the AI model maker grows at a dizzying pace. Several investors informed TechCrunch that the company's capital acquisition announced last week, amounting to US$65 billion, was clearly overcharacterized in an assessment of US$965 billion. Since private demand is still large, Anthropic has announced that the company is taking steps towards a stock exchange listing by requesting a stock exchange.

Co-founder Daniela Amodei said on Thursday at the Bloomberg Tech conference that the decision was due to capital. “It’s a really high cost to train the models and draw conclusions from them,” she said. “I assume that the core group of companies working to drive the borders will simply need access to capital over time, and I think that the public market is very well suited to it.”

Anthropic has grown rapidly. The company announced that annual sales in May have exceeded the US $47 billion mark, a dramatic increase compared to around US$9 billion at the end of 2025. This development is, however, a real test of parole. Companies like Uber have said that although AI can bring yields, not all of its AI outputs have proven to be productive, this increases the prospect that companies could start to pull these budgets and slow growth throughout the industry.

It doesn't bother Amodei because he believes that companies are still at the beginning when it comes to finding out how they can effectively use AI.

“I believe that today’s applications will continue to be the main driver of efficiency or creativity, whether in programming, financial services, legal systems or healthcare,” she said. “But if the business world becomes more and more familiar with the tools, we will all learn together. I hope that it will be more integrated into the daily work of people and that there will actually be much more added value.”

Amodei also considered why anthropic, unlike competitors OpenAI and Elon Musks xAI does not build its own data centers to meet the growing data needs of the company.

“The view of Anthropic has always been to plan the best result, but not to overwrite us so that we can buy more computing power than we could use productively,” she said. “It’s really hard to predict that. We would rather be on the side that has a little more demand for the product than we can use than vice versa.”

Last month, the company surprised the AI industry through a partnership with xAI for computing capacity, a deal later in the S-1 application of SpaceX was announced and Anthropic should cost $1.25 billion a month.