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What changedRoger McNamee’s article adds a striking example to its financial-risk argument: he says Anthropic has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, with a desired valuation that could exceed $2 trillion.
McNamee casts the potential listing as an opportunity for existing investors to cash out, rather than a route for new investors to get rich. That is his assessment, not an announced IPO price or confirmed valuation.
The detail makes the contrast sharper between AI’s enormous financial expectations and the returns McNamee argues remain unproven. Would a valuation of that scale reflect confidence in AI’s future, or investors betting they can get out before the reckoning?
Sources and evidence- Roger McNamee: AI’s ‘existential risks’ are all hype. But there's a real, and dangerous, financial bubble building – The Nerve: McNamee’s article says Anthropic has filed IPO paperwork and that its desired valuation could exceed $2 trillion.
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