Deploying Anthropic, remember to keep an eye on the Leverage Shares account

According to the latest financial report, Salesforce's Q2 revenue reached $9.78 billion, a year-over-year increase of approximately 10%, with adjusted EPS of $2.90, both beating market expectations. The company also raised its full-year financial guidance. More notably, Salesforce announced a deep collaboration with U.S. AI unicorn Anthropic to jointly launch the Agentforce solution, effectively alleviating market concerns about "AI replacing the software industry." Buoyed by this positive news, Salesforce's stock price surged over 22% in a single day.

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Anthropic's potential initial public offering (IPO) is gradually becoming one of the focal events in the capital markets for 2026. As the company sits at the heart of the generative AI boom and continues to see revenue growth, its listing plans have attracted widespread attention from both retail and institutional investors.

This article provides a brief overview of Anthropic, covering its core business, financial drivers, revenue, and valuation. Below is key information to understand before trading the company's IPO.

Company Profile: Anthropic

Anthropic is a US-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2021, best known for developing the "Claude" series of AI models, which compete directly with generative AI systems such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

The company was co-founded by CEO Dario Amodei, President Daniela Amodei (siblings), and several former members of OpenAI. Concerned about AI safety and the pace of commercialization during their tenure at OpenAI, these founders decided to establish their own generative AI startup.

Since its inception, Anthropic has experienced rapid growth, with annualized revenue reaching $65 billion. Its primary success lies in the enterprise customer market, where clients leverage Claude to handle complex technical workflows, code generation, and automated data processing.

The company's investors include tech giants such as Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Zoom Communications; venture capital and institutional firms like Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ICONIQ Capital, and Altimeter Capital; as well as individual investors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Among them, Amazon is Anthropic's largest single external strategic investor, having committed tens of billions of dollars through multiple investment rounds.

Introduction to the Claude Model

Claude is Anthropic's flagship AI model series, renowned for its exceptional performance in writing, coding, research, problem-solving, and handling extensive context windows.

Claude AI models are categorized into different tiers based on capability:

– Haiku: Lightweight, fast, and cost-effective, suitable for high-frequency, high-volume simple tasks.

– Sonnet: A flagship high-performance model optimized for complex reasoning, coding, and daily enterprise tasks.

– Opus: A powerful model designed for highly complex analysis, creative work, and deep technical problems.

– Fable: A next-generation intelligence model designed for long-running autonomous agents.

It is worth noting that Anthropic also developed an advanced AI model named Mythos. However, due to concerns over the risks associated with its autonomous vulnerability exploitation capabilities, the company decided not to release this model to the public or developers.

Anthropic's Customer Base

Currently, Anthropic serves thousands of enterprises, small businesses, development teams, and end consumers across various industries. Its clients include:

- Technology Companies: Leveraging Claude for internal software development, building AI agent infrastructure, or supporting consumer-facing features within their products.

- Financial and Professional Services Firms: Used for financial modeling, risk analysis, legal analysis, and processing customer intelligence.

- Healthcare and Life Sciences Enterprises: Analyzing research literature, processing clinical documents, and supporting biomedical discoveries.

- E-commerce and Retail Brands: Used for automating customer service, personalizing marketing campaigns, and workflow automation.

- Developers and Individual Users: Software engineers and creators use Claude to write and debug code, design software architectures, analyze complex codebases, and rapidly prototype applications.

Anthropic's Main Competitors

As Anthropic operates in the highly competitive frontier of artificial intelligence, it faces numerous competitors, ranging from tech giants and open-source developers to specialized foundation model laboratories.

Currently, its two largest competitors are likely OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Google DeepMind (Gemini). Both companies possess massive proprietary computing infrastructure, extensive consumer reach, and cutting-edge foundation models, directly competing with Anthropic for market dominance.

2026 Revenue Performance

According to Bloomberg, as of the end of July, Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate (an estimate of full-year revenue based on recent short-term data) has exceeded $65 billion, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of 2025.

The Financial Times reports that Anthropic's investors expect the company to maintain a similar growth pace for the remainder of the year, which would push its annualized revenue run rate to between $100 billion and $120 billion by the end of 2026.

Profitability Status

Anthropic has long been unprofitable. However, according to Bloomberg, the company generated positive adjusted operating income in Q2 2026, a first for a frontier AI lab. Nevertheless, investors should not assume Anthropic will remain profitable. The company warned investors in May that full-year profitability might not be sustained due to expected increases in data center spending in the second half of the year.

Company Valuation

Anthropic's post-money valuation in its latest official funding round was $965 billion. However, investors now anticipate its IPO valuation could reach $2 trillion or higher. Listing at such a valuation would make it the largest IPO in history, and a $2 trillion valuation would instantly position Anthropic among the most valuable companies globally.

Key Points for Anthropic's IPO Trading

Investors interested in participating in the IPO must carefully weigh the company's unprecedented growth trajectory against its valuation and the continuously rising infrastructure costs required to maintain its frontier status. This is no easy task—there are compelling arguments for both bullish and bearish positions in the market.

It is understood that ETF issuers have already filed applications for Anthropic-related products, planning to launch exchange-traded funds that track twice the daily performance of the company.

The mechanism of such products works as follows: if Anthropic's stock price rises by 1% in a single day, the ETF aims to deliver a 2% return; conversely, losses are also reflected at twice the magnitude when the price falls.

It is important to note that such leveraged ETFs typically feature a daily rebalancing mechanism. Over the long term, returns may deviate from the simple 2x multiplier expectation due to the effects of compounding and volatility. Additionally, liquidity and bid-ask spreads during the initial listing period are potential factors to consider.

For investors looking to participate in the AI sector, this undoubtedly provides an additional tool option. However, they must also assess their own risk tolerance and make decisions after fully understanding the product's characteristics.

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