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Morning Brief · November 2nd 2026

Anthropic will sell up to $3.5 billion of its IPO shares to investors in Japan

Anthropic plans to sell up to 552.9 billion yen, about $3.5 billion, of new shares to Japanese investors as part of its US listing, according to a filing made on Monday and reported by Reuters from Tokyo. The money goes to working capital, operating expenses and capital spending. The filing gives no total size for the offering, no price range and no valuation; Reuters has reported that some investors have discussed about $1.5 trillion.

For scale, Japanese investors took $2.2 billion of the $75 billion SpaceX raised in June, the largest listing ever. A Japanese tranche of this size means Anthropic's bankers are lining up retail and institutional demand outside the US before a price range exists, which is the step that comes right before a roadshow. Reuters did not name the Japanese brokers or the filing's formal type. SourcesB B

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This story ran in the Morning Brief of November 2nd 2026.

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