Anthropic files for Nasdaq listing under ticker ANT

An untold story this morning: on October 26 Anthropic, the company that produces the Claude chatbot, filed for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker “ANT,” according to the AI News by Russ McGuire newsletter based on the filing submitted to the SEC, the US markets oversight authority. The news currently comes from a single source consulted in the available material; no further independent confirmation is currently available.

The filed document indicates revenues of $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, a figure that marks a sharp increase over the $1.2 billion recorded in the same period the previous year. The filing also reports that more than 11,900 customers pay Anthropic $100,000 or more, an indicator of the large-scale corporate customer base on which the company builds its revenues.

The filing of the listing application follows the typical path of technology companies seeking to raise capital on public markets after years of private funding. Being a document filed with an oversight authority, the revenue and customer data reported in the application constitute figures declared by the company itself as part of the listing process, not figures verified by an independent external auditor outside the regulatory process itself.

The listing application comes at a time of strong market attention toward the artificial intelligence sector, with investors in the same weeks questioning the sustainability of the investments announced by major technology companies in the field. The revenue jump, from $1.2 to $16.3 billion in one year, offers a concrete benchmark for assessing how much commercial demand for products based on language models has actually translated into revenue, beyond the projections previously communicated by companies in the sector. The ticker “ANT” indicated in the application will identify the company’s shares should the listing be completed, marking the entry onto public markets of one of OpenAI’s main direct competitors in the race for large language models.