Anthropic Opens Australian Retail IPO Ahead of Nasdaq Listing

Anthropic opened its Australian retail share offer at 10 a.m. AEDT on Wednesday and will keep the window open until 5 p.m. AEDT on Nov. 17, CNBC reported. Shares are priced between $70 and $78, and the company has applied to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker "ANT." It is not applying for a listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Eight brokers are handling the retail book: Commonwealth Bank of Australia's CommSec unit as lead, alongside Bell Potter, LGT Wealth, Macquarie, Morgans, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Sharesies and Stake. Australia joins Japan, Canada and parts of Europe as one of the few countries where individual investors can buy in directly before the Nasdaq debut.

CNBC's framing is pointed: the offer opened "as AI scrutiny intensifies." The outlet reports the retail launch comes as Australia tightens oversight after "an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to the medical statistics website of Medicare," the country's universal health insurance program, and after Canberra "ruled out a copyright-law exemption that would allow AI companies to train models on Australian content without licensing it." OpenAI and Anthropic told Australian parliament last month that they would support mandatory reporting of data breaches involving their AI agents, acknowledging disclosure is currently voluntary.

Anthropic is seeking to raise as much as $64.4 billion in its IPO, with a separate $26 billion private placement, bringing a combined total to as much as $90.4 billion. Our prior alert tracked the oversubscribed book and FT reporting that bankers are weighing a price above the $70–$78 range, lifting the valuation to $1.5 trillion or more.