Dario Amodei once positioned himself as one of the loudest voices warning that advanced artificial intelligence could pose existential risks to humanity. Today, he is leading a company preparing for one of the most ambitious public offerings in tech history—at a valuation that could approach or exceed a trillion dollars.
The shift has raised eyebrows across Silicon Valley and Wall Street alike.
Anthropic Moves Toward a Trillion-Dollar IPO
The company at the center of this transformation is Anthropic, which has now filed a confidential S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, 2026. That filing marks the formal first step toward an initial public offering that could place the firm among the most valuable companies in the world.
The company was founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei, who left OpenAI after expressing concerns that its approach to artificial intelligence safety was not cautious enough. At the time, he reportedly departed with a group of researchers and raised early funding around a central promise: build a more responsible AI lab—one that prioritized safety over speed and profit.
That original pitch helped Anthropic attract major backing, eventually including tens of billions from heavyweight investors such as Amazon and Google, along with global institutional capital seeking exposure to the AI boom.
But the story unfolding in 2026 looks increasingly different from that original vision.
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