Claude Opus 5 release pushed back
Anthropic almost never ships on Fridays so next week is the window
If they nail pricing and latency, the frontier race won’t just heat up, it’ll reset the game
The first AI IPO is about to set a very expensive benchmark
Anthropic is reportedly targeting $2T, with revenue expected to hit $100–120B this year
Meanwhile, OpenAI has not even entered the public market yet
Anthropic is preparing to go public as soon as end of August
They want a bigger IPO than SpaceX
OpenAI is watching from the sidelines
The first one to market will set the price for the entire AI race