Anthropic Taps JPMorgan to Lead Retail Book in Record-Scale AI IPO
Summary
Anthropic picked JPMorgan to run US retail sales in its IPO, with roughly 15% to 20% of the offering earmarked for individual investors, according to people familiar with the matter. Citigroup will coordinate the international retail tranche across Australia, Canada, Japan, parts of the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. The company filed publicly on Monday, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the deal. Investors are floating fair-value estimates of about $1.4 trillion to $1.5 trillion, with $1.75 trillion seen as potentially achievable. JPMorgan is reprising the retail role it played on SpaceX's $86.2 billion IPO, which drew more than $100 billion of individual demand — a read-across on how much retail appetite this listing could pull. For JPMorgan the mandate is a fee and franchise win, but the story is Anthropic's: the first listing by a company built primarily around frontier AI models, and the retail allocation is the piece that determines how much of the deal lands with individual buyers.
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