Anthropic IPO Sells Shares to the Companies It Owes $901 Billion

Seven companies have agreed to buy $26 billion of Anthropic stock as soon as the Anthropic IPO closes, and two of the seven are companies Anthropic has already promised at least $168.5 billion to. The Anthropic IPO price is $70 to $78 a share, with trading in ANT stock starting on the Nasdaq on November 19. Google is putting in $10 billion. So is Nvidia. AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft and TSMC Partners take the rest. The same filing that names those buyers records what Anthropic has promised Google and Microsoft for computing capacity, on contracts that require payment whether the capacity is used or not.

The Google agreement, signed in March 2026, runs from April 2026 to July 2033. If Anthropic’s spending falls short of the minimum, it pays Google the difference as a true-up. The Microsoft agreement, signed in November 2025 and amended during 2026, runs from November 2026 to June 2033 and commits Anthropic to spend at least $47.2 billion and up to $49.2 billion, and neither contract can be cancelled except if the other side commits an uncured material breach. Amazon signed the same kind of deal in April 2026, at least $110 billion through April 2036, and Amazon is not among the seven buyers.

Deciding how much computing power to buy is the company’s “deepest business dilemma,” chief executive Dario Amodei told JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon in a livestreamed conversation on Friday. “We actually tend to buy on the low side,” he said. Cash from the offering eases that trade-off: “Just the more cash we have on hand, the more buffer we have between those two things.” The filing describes the other side of that choice in plainer terms. Anthropic has entered into “long-term agreements for compute and related resources that involve minimum purchase commitments, take-or-pay provisions, and other terms that obligate us to pay for resources regardless of actual utilization.” The spot market is where the flexibility Amodei described lives. The $900.9 billion of commitments is the part that is already fixed.

Anthropic’s filing puts that aggregate committed spend at about $900.9 billion. Of it, $451.6 billion is expected before the end of 2030, and $70.7 billion falls due in the twelve months after September 30, 2026. Together they raise at most $90.4 billion. That is roughly a tenth of the commitments. The sum due in the next year alone tops the $64.35 billion the public offering raises at the top of its range. Revenue was $33.2 billion in the first nine months of 2026. A year earlier it was $2.5 billion. The operating loss for those nine months was $1.3 billion, while the net loss of $104 billion is mostly a paper figure, the rising value of convertible notes. Anthropic held $95.6 billion in cash and $36.3 billion in short-term investments at September 30.

On X, the arithmetic drew the sharpest replies. Trecopo, an actuary posting on X, put the two numbers side by side: “Anthropic is asking investors to believe two numbers at once: an $81 billion annualised revenue run rate and nearly $901 billion in future computing and infrastructure commitments.” A poster writing as J2Wick called the growth the roadshow needs to close that gap “an extraordinarily aggressive growth assumption” — Goldman Sachs reportedly projects $685 billion of annual revenue by 2030, against $4.6 billion in 2025. The roadshow’s answer to the bill is growth; the thread’s question is whether the growth can arrive before the bills do.

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Anthropic is asking investors to believe two numbers at once: an $81 billion annualised revenue run rate and nearly $901 billion in future computing and infrastructure commitments.

On November 10, 2026, Anthropic launched…

— @Trecopo (@Trecopo1) November 10, 2026

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According to its SEC filing, Anthropic has… pic.twitter.com/bD2vvyz1yS

— J2Wick | Seoul (@JJoonWick) November 11, 2026

Google’s $10 billion comes through an option Anthropic granted under a March 2026 note purchase agreement, and the filing says Google is funding a portion of its previously committed investment obligations through it. The placement shares are Class N stock. They generally carry no vote. The trust Anthropic created to guard its public-benefit purpose generally has the power to elect and remove a majority of the board. AMD’s $2.5 billion sits beside a July hardware agreement under which Anthropic expects to spend more than $20 billion if it takes the full initial tranche of AMD systems.

The list of the seven buyers got a blunter reading on X. Replying to the list of the seven buyers, one poster on X, J.Edwards, wrote: “half these names are the ones selling anthropic its chips.” Another, posting as The Seeker, was blunter: “Seems as if the whole thing is a scam.” The filing discloses the loop in its own terms; the thread’s objection is to the shape of the deal, not to a secret.

half these names are the ones selling anthropic its chips

— J.Edwards (@john_kraz) November 10, 2026

Seems as if the whole thing is a scam.

— The Seeker (@parella_anthony) November 10, 2026

Anthony Aiello, writing on Threads, had already applied for $20,000 of IPO shares through Charles Schwab. “Anthropic is getting ready to go public! 🚀 Just applied to buy $20,000 in IPO shares through my Charles Schwab. Now I wait!” brookefeamster, replying in the same thread, asked the question the roadshow leaves open: “Are you not worried about the dip after it goes public? Curious thoughts” The thread had already moved on to the dip, with later replies predicting the price would fall before it rose.

Anthropic is getting ready to go public! 🚀 Just applied to buy $20,000 in IPO shares through my Charles Schwab. Now I wait!

In another Threads conversation about the IPO, a trader posting as ftwtradinggroup called the offering a money grab and admitted the pull anyway: “I feel the same it’s looking like a money grab, but don’t want to be the dummy that missed out.” In Japan, a retail investor posting as YUKI CAPITAL english said he had decided to buy about $62,582 after the listing, but not on the first day. “The first day’s price is set by heat. I will watch the price settle, then decide the day to order.” None of the four mentions the contracts that bind the money either way. The take-or-pay clause is the part of the deal the thread has not priced.

I feel the same it’s looking like a money grab, but don’t want to be the dummy that missed out

The first day’s price is set by heat. I will watch the price settle, then decide the day to order.

Retail investors can subscribe in Australia, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, the UK and nine countries in the European Economic Area. JPMorgan leads retail sales in the United States. At the top of the range, the Anthropic valuation would be about $1.02 trillion on the share count in the filing, and about $1.4 trillion once employee stock options and restricted shares are counted. On X, VoidReader noted the valuation had already come down from the summer’s talk: “$1.26-1.41T valuation, not the $2T people talked about in the summer.” He asked what happens on day one.

Anthropic just set its IPO price: $70-78 a share
⁰That’s a $1.26-1.41T valuation, not the
$2T people talked about in the summer
⁰Pricing Nov 18 → first trade Nov 19
⁰Polymarket: 82% it closes above the IPO price on day one
⁰And 75% the valuation hits $1.5T by Dec 31, that… https://t.co/50mh5d4HbG pic.twitter.com/DYW0MJ78fn

— VoidReader (@VoidReader_) November 11, 2026

Morningstar put fair value at $92 a share, above the range, with scenarios running from $25 to $188. Jim Cramer told CNBC he was wary of recommending the shares at their debut. The order book was about six times the shares on offer by Thursday, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the two sales.