{"id":263843,"date":"2026-06-04T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/whats-fueling-an-ipo-rush-from-spacex-anthropic-and-openai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:40:13","slug":"whats-fueling-an-ipo-rush-from-spacex-anthropic-and-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/whats-fueling-an-ipo-rush-from-spacex-anthropic-and-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s fueling an IPO rush from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s fueling an IPO rush from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/podcasts\/490812\/artificial-intelligence-ipo-spacex-anthropic-openai-musk-money<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-04 07:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.vox.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome to the era of the big three.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not talking rappers here \u2014 although according to Kendrick Lamar, it\u2019s \u201cjust big me\u201d \u2014 we\u2019re talking AI companies: Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI.<\/p>\n

These three leading artificial intelligence companies are all expected to go public this year. Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which recently acquired another Musk company, xAi, is on track to open up to investors later this month. Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude, just filed confidentially with the States Securities and Exchange Commission for its own initial public offering. Reports say OpenAI could also go public as soon as September. (Disclosure: Vox Media is one of several publishers that have signed partnership agreements with OpenAI. Our reporting remains editorially independent.)<\/p>\n

SpaceX\u2019s IPO, when it happens, could be the largest in history and mint Musk as the world\u2019s first trillionaire. With Anthropic and OpenAI, the combined value of AI IPOs could total over $3 trillion.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not as simple as going public and raking in cash. \u201cThere\u2019s this race that\u2019s been going on between SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic,\u201d Liz Lopatto, a senior writer at The Verge said. \u201cThere\u2019s this fear that if you don\u2019t go public at the right time or you don\u2019t go public first, investors aren\u2019t going to wait for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

To understand why some of the world\u2019s richest men, at the helm of some of the world\u2019s richest companies, are now courting the public\u2019s money, Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram spoke with Lopatto.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s been deep in SpaceX\u2019s public filings and has been covering the court drama between Musk and OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman. Her latest piece for the Verge is titled \u201cThe SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean and Lopatto chat about what each of the companies hope to gain from the public, why this moment could be like internet 1.0\u2019s dot-com bubble, and whether these companies chasing shareholder profits will be…<\/p>\n

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