Two AI giants could go public this year. How many hundreds of billions of dollars are companies worth
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Two AI giants, famous chatbot companies, could go public this year and have begun serious preparations in 2025. OpenAI and Anthropic have not set clear financial targets yet, but if they do list, 2026 could be one of the most productive years in the history of tech companies going public.
This year, along with OpenAI and Anthropic, another famous private company could list, writes the Financial Times: SpaceX, led by Elon Musk (sources talk about a possible value of 800 billion dollars).
The publication writes that in each IPO (initial public offering), companies will raise tens of billions of dollars. The largest IPO in history was in 2019, for Saudi Aramco, a giant that raised $29 billion in its listing in Riyadh.
Both companies began listing preparations last year: Anthropic appointed a law firm to handle it, and OpenAI has been in talks with various top companies, but the sources say it has not yet chosen its legal advisers.
OpenAI is currently valued at $500 billion and is in talks with several investors for a new round of funding that would take it to a valuation of $750 billion or even more.
And Anthropic is in talks for new financing, which investors expect will take the company to more than $300 billion. In September 2025, after a funding round in which it raised $13 billion, the company was valued at $183 billion
If at least one of the big tech companies goes public, 2026 could be a record year for initial public offerings. Figma, Klarna, CoreWeave and Chime were among the tech groups listed in 2025, contributing a total of more than $30 billion in US IPO proceeds in the first nine months, most of which came from technology. shows the data of the consulting company Ernst & Young.
In 2025, Anthropic and OpenAI prepared for a future on the stock market and by appointing executives with experience in running listed companies, improving corporate governance and attracting large investors from the public markets.
These plans could, however, be “derailed” by the emergence of unexpected political or economic turmoil, and it should not be forgotten that listings will expose these private groups to a new level of close public scrutiny.
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