Perplexity is sticking with a 2028 IPO while OpenAI and Anthropic race to list this year
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Perplexity AI is sticking with a 2028 IPO timeline while OpenAI and Anthropic race to list in 2026. CEO Srinivas says the plan hasn’t changed and the market can absorb multiple AI listings.
Perplexity AI plans to go public in 2028, and CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC that timeline has not changed because OpenAI and Anthropic are now filing for IPOs. “Agnostic of these two companies, we were planning for something in 2028, so that still remains the case,” Srinivas said.
The statement positions Perplexity as the deliberate outlier in a market where the three largest AI companies are all racing to list within months of each other.
The case for waiting
OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO on Monday at an $852 billion private valuation. Anthropic filed last week at $965 billion. SpaceX lists on Thursday at roughly $1.8 trillion.
Srinivas argued the market can absorb...
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