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\"\"<\/a> Protesters gathered in London amid rising anxiety about the rapid development and dangers of artificial intelligence (JUSTIN TALLIS) <\/p>\n

Anthropic is expected to beat rival OpenAI to the public markets with a blockbuster IPO later this year despite recent doomsday warnings, but questions remain about their business models and whether regulators should step in. <\/p>\n

Concerns about the safety of advanced artificial intelligence models escalated this month after an employee resigned from Anthropic while warning that the industry was “gambling with our lives.” <\/p>\n

Jacob Coxon, who also previously worked at OpenAI, left Anthropic last week amid a flurry of support from his former colleagues, including one who voiced concern about a small probability that AI could cause humanity’s extinction.We <\/p>\n

Last weekend, Anthropic’s own CEO Dario Amodei called for AI development to slow down — but didn’t say anything about the IPO. <\/p>\n

The fracas forms a backdrop for highly anticipated initial public offerings from both OpenAI and Anthropic. <\/p>\n

It’s unclear if, or how, either company will address theoretical doomsday scenarios in securities filings, though. <\/p>\n

Companies are required to publicly disclose known business risks to investors prior to an IPO. <\/p>\n

Anthropic could submit that document to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as early as this month. <\/p>\n

“Are we to believe that there is something that’s extremely dangerous that’s hiding inside this company because this person that quit said it, and then it was amplified by a bunch of people” who still work there, All-In podcast co-host Chamath Palihapitiya said last week. <\/p>\n

“If it’s true… (investors) will demand an enormous discount,” said Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist. <\/p>\n

Altimeter Capital founder Brad Gerstner, who has shares in both OpenAI and Anthropic, downplayed the concerns this week, arguing that an IPO brings transparency for investors. <\/p>\n

“Anthropic will IPO. The market knows how to price risk — see SpaceX,” Gerstner posted on X. <\/p>\n

Elon Musk’s SpaceX raised a record $85 billion in its June IPO, but its stock has lost around a quarter of its value since peaking at around $202 a share. <\/p>\n

“There is huge appetite to invest in the AI leaders,” Gerstner added. <\/p>\n

– ‘Ill-advised’ – <\/p>\n

How Anthropic’s IPO performs will also set the tone for OpenAI’s debut next year. <\/p>\n

The stakes extend well beyond the two companies themselves, with tech giants including Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Nvidia holding significant stakes in the AI labs. <\/p>\n

More broadly, the US economy is increasingly tied to the AI buildout, meaning the success or failure of these IPOs carries weight for the wider economy. <\/p>\n

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said this weekend that the company would delay its own IPO until 2027, citing safety concerns. It’s an “ill-advised moment,” Altman said. <\/p>\n

Before the recent headlines over AI safety, Altman and executives at OpenAI had already signaled that they were in no hurry to go public this year. <\/p>\n

The ChatGPT maker’s dealmaking appears to be running full speed ahead, nonetheless. <\/p>\n

OpenAI is in talks with investors about raising a new round of funding with a valuation of at least $1.2 trillion before it goes public, while Anthropic might seek a $2 trillion valuation in an IPO that could happen as early as October, according to various reports. <\/p>\n

Leaders inside OpenAI have been concerned about investor skittishness, broad market uncertainty and SpaceX’s underwhelming stock performance, according to media reports. <\/p>\n

– ‘Massive’ – <\/p>\n

Also weighing on executives’ minds is a proposal by both companies to slow down development, given recent incidents involving AI technology going rogue. <\/p>\n

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar dismissed the idea that a slowing of pace in releasing state-of-the-art technology would impact the company’s core business and revenue growth. <\/p>\n

“Even if we stop today, the amount of intelligence that’s available in the world is massive,” Friar told CNBC on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Anthropic also pushed back on the idea that being safety-minded would compromise the IPO. <\/p>\n

“I would say safety has been the core of who we are from the very beginning,” Anthropic’s head of policy, Sarah Heck, said at a Politico conference on Wednesday. “Our investors know that. Our customers know that.” <\/p>\n

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