What’s riding on Anthropic’s market debut? Nearly everything.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Anthropic goes public as soon as next month, its initial offering will be more than just a coming-out party for the artificial intelligence company. It will also be a litmus test for the economy, with trillions of dollars at stake. Anthropic, which makes the Claude chatbot, is a tent pole of the AI industry. Valued in the private markets at nearly $1 trillion and backed by more than $130 billion in funding, it could raise $100 billion in its offering and promptly become one of the world’s biggest public companies. But the stakes are even higher than that.

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