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#Anthropic plans to publicly file IPO documents by the end of August, aiming to raise funds that could match SpaceX. My first reaction when I saw this news was: Here we go again? Anthropic is going public, with the prospectus expected as early as the end of August, and they secretly submitted the S-1 in June. Their fundraising target directly competes with SpaceX—SpaceX just set a global IPO record of $86.2 billion in June this year, and this guy says they want to match or even surpass that. The valuation is even more outrageous; the market is already talking about $2 trillion. What does $2 trillion mean? Coca-Cola and Pepsi combined don’t even come close. A company whose most famous product externally is a chatbot, valued at $2 trillion—I really start to question my understanding of money. But you really can’t call them crazy. Q2 revenue was $11.5 billion, compared to only $787 million in the same period last year, a 14-fold increase in one year. Annualized revenue has already reached $65 billion, and Q2 even achieved adjusted operating profit for the first time. This growth curve is unmatched in tech history. So the question is: Is this the biggest opportunity in human history, or the biggest bubble? I tend to wait and see. Everyone knows how fast AI burns money; Nvidia’s GPUs are not cheap. Now with hundreds of billions in revenue, they dare to be valued at $2 trillion—what if growth slows down next year? Also, OpenAI is in line, and when two giants start drawing blood, whether the market can handle it is another question. An AI company valued at $2 trillion sounds like a game of hot potato. What do you all think?