We Have The Anthropic IPO Numbers
We Have The Anthropic IPO Numbers  
Podcast: Tech Brew Ride Home
Published On: Tue Sep 29 2026
Description: Anthropic's IPO prospectus finally surfaced: a $42B net loss on $4.6B in revenue, a quarter of it from two customers. OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra over safety, Oura postponed its IPO, and I wondered whether intelligence is becoming a commodity. ⁠THIS IS THE YOUTUBE VIDEO OF MY RANT⁠ IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers (Reuters) Anthropic formally warns investors its technology may pose "existential risks to humanity," devoting almost a third of its S-1 to risk factors including AI manipulation and blackmail (FT) Anthropic's IPO filing creates a "Founder LLC" of its seven co-founders, whose majority vote directs a single Class F share with 50.1% of voting power, while the company stays a PBC (Reuters) OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release (WSJ) Oura says it is delaying its Nasdaq IPO due to uncertainty in the market, despite "strong demand" and a strengthening of its business since the process started (CNBC) Sources: OpenAI's ARR is nearing $70B, growing 70%+ since the beginning of Q3, with B2B revenue up 100%+; it added more consumer revenue in Q3 than all of 2025 (Axios) Claude Code vs. OpenAI Codex ARR: Codex never slowed after Claude Code's crossover while Claude Code appears to have plateaued, and Opus mentions on GitHub spiked after Opus 5.5 as GPT-6 mentions dropped (TickerTrends) THIS IS THE YOUTUBE VIDEO OF MY RANT