By Echo Wang
Nov 10 (Reuters) – Anthropic’s IPO is set to raise as much as $64.4 billion, according to the latest draft prospectus seen by Reuters on Tuesday, as the AI company gears up to launch its marketing of the deal.
The company will also raise $26 billion via a separate private placement deal with cornerstone investors including Alphabet’s Google, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, the draft prospectus showed.
Together with investments from cornerstones, which also include Broadcom, Micron Technology, Microsoft and TSMC, the Anthropic share offering will raise a total of up to $90.4 billion.
The US company and some of its investors plan to sell shares in the IPO in an indicative price band of between $70 and $78 per share, the prospectus showed. Deal details are expected to be announced soon.
Anthropic and the cornerstone investors did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
(Reporting by Echo Wong; Editing by Sumeet Chatterjee, David Goodman and Jan Harvey)
