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Anthropic’s IPO filing has reportedly prompted some current and prospective investors to value the company at about $1.5tn, down from roughly $2tn a week earlier. Livemint attributes the figures to Reuters, making this a sharp new measure of investor sentiment, not a confirmed company valuation.

The reported shift follows Anthropic disclosing financial details at an investor event. With its public filing now in view, the gap between ambitious AI spending and the returns investors expect is becoming harder to ignore. A trillion-pound-sized shrug is still a shrug, not a market price. But the reported drop suggests the appetite for AI growth may come with a more exacting calculator.

Discuss: Should investors value AI companies mainly on their growth potential, or should heavy computing costs weigh more heavily before they reach the public markets?

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