# Anthropic reportedly plans to start trading as soon as next week, as investors push its valuation lower

> The Wall Street Journal says a price range is due this week. Some investors want less than the $1.5 trillion target discussed only days ago.

- URL: https://devisdead.ai/news/anthropic-reportedly-plans-to-start-trading-as-soon-as-next-week-as-investors-pu
- Published: 2026-11-10T10:28:34Z
- Author: DevIsDead Newsroom
- Section: Startups & Money
- Tags: anthropic, ipo, valuation, openai
- Originally reported by TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/anthropic-reportedly-plans-to-move-forward-with-ipo-plans/).

Anthropic is going ahead with its stock market listing despite a rough week for AI stocks, [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/anthropic-reportedly-plans-to-move-forward-with-ipo-plans/) reports, citing The Wall Street Journal. Per the Journal, a price range comes this week and shares could begin changing hands late next week, on Thursday or Friday.

The timing is awkward. It comes right after a huge Nasdaq sell-off and the scandal around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese spy, which has hit the whole sector.

## The number keeps falling

According to the Journal, some institutional investors want a valuation below $1.5 trillion, the target being talked about as recently as last week. That figure was already well under the $2 trillion mentioned only months earlier.

For comparison, rival OpenAI reportedly landed a $1.25 trillion valuation last week when it raised $11 billion of the $20 billion it first wanted.

Investors will treat the price as a read on how healthy the AI boom really is. A short brief for now; details will firm up when the range is set.

**[Scoreboard](/scoreboard) update:** Draw. The AI boom's biggest test goes to public markets, and humans set the price.

Stay undead.