Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out

Anthropic has settled on Nasdaq for a listing it still hopes to complete in October, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Business Insider.

The filing remains private, and the valuation is not fixed, though estimates circulating around the deal put it near $2trn.

For Nasdaq, the win completes a set. It took SpaceX earlier this year at a $1.75trn valuation, and with Anthropic it now holds both of the largest listings of a year that has otherwise been thin for technology flotations.

The New York Stock Exchange has historically collected the biggest debuts, which makes 2026 a marked break, and both venues are competing less for the fees than for the right to be seen as the natural home of every AI listing that follows.

In trading terms, Anthropic gains very little. No convincing evidence shows that companies perform better on one American exchange...

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