Anthropic walks tightrope to Nasdaq, pushing for a slowdown while pursuing $2 trillion valuation

While Anthropic meets with prospective investors ahead of its potentially historic market debut, CEO Dario Amodei is pushing for a slowdown in AI. It's a tough balancing act for a five-year-old company pursuing a $2 trillion valuation. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune in an interview that, "Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public." Anthropic has picked the Nasdaq as the exchange for its potential IPO, CNBC confirmed after Business Insider first reported the selection. Amodei on Saturday proposed that model companies open up to third-party evaluators, frontier companies establish "common safety standards," and that democratic countries coordinate with authoritarian governments "to the extent this is possible." His essay came after several industry researchers issued stern warnings last week about the technology's growing potential to cause catastrophic harms. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed support for Amodei's proposal, as did Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, which owns Grok creator xAI. SpaceX went public in June in the biggest IPO on record and is now valued at $2 trillion. OpenAI has confidentially filed its IPO prospectus, but has been under fire in recent months after its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached open-source developer platform Hugging Face. "Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public," Altman said in an interview with Fortune, reiterating that OpenAI won't aim for an IPO until next year. Finance chief Sarah Fri...