Anthropic Just Filed to Go Public — Here's What It Means for Developers The AI IPO floodgates are opening. Anthropic confidentially submitted its S-1 to the SEC this week, joining SpaceX in the pipeline — and Alphabet raised $80 billion the same day to compete. The AI arms race has officially moved from GitHub to Wall Street. Here's what the S-1 filing means, why it matters to developers, and what it signals about where the industry is heading. The Numbers That Matter Anthropic isn't just any AI startup. Since its Series A in 2021, it has raised over $14 billion at a valuation north of $60 billion . For context: Metric Anthropic OpenAI Google DeepMind Total raised ~$14B ~$20B Internal (Alphabet) Latest valuation $60B+ $157B (SoftBank round) N/A Claude users 10M+ weekly 400M+ weekly (ChatGPT) 2B+ (Gemini in products) Enterprise customers 1,000+ 1M+ business users Via Google Cloud The S-1 filing means Anthropic believes the public markets are ready for a pure-play AI company.…