Anthropic Said to Pick Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO

Anthropic PBC has lined up banks to lead work on its IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, as the artificial intelligence company races its rival OpenAI to be first to go public.

The maker of the Claude chatbot has picked Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to lead its initial public offering, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is private. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is also on the deal, the people said.

Anthropic is weighing going public as soon as October, Bloomberg News reported, and has filed confidentially for a listing. ...