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Anthropic expands its IPO banking consortium to include Citigroup, alongside Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase. The company filed confidentially in June and could go public as early as 2026. Polymarket values the probability of an Anthropic IPO by September 2026 at 89% with over 1 million dollars in trading volume.

Anthropic has launched Claude Academy – a free, publicly accessible learning platform with courses and tutorials for all skill levels. With 23,000 likes and 2,500 retweets, this is one of the most discussed AI events of the week. The move strengthens Anthropic's market position as a trusted AI provider and addresses growing demand for AI competency development in enterprises.

OpenAI released an Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT Mac app on August 20, which can read, search, analyze, and respond to iMessage, SMS, and RCS histories. This marks a significant step into users' private communication sphere and is likely to trigger substantial privacy and security debates. The move intensifies competition with Apple Intelligence and positions OpenAI deep within the Apple ecosystem.

According to an AI roundup from August 18, Anthropic has achieved an annualized revenue run-rate of 65 billion dollars – an extraordinary growth signal shortly before the planned IPO. In parallel, OpenAI secured approximately 8 GW of data center capacity in Ohio. These figures underscore the unprecedented capital concentration among leading AI labs.

A recent Financial Times report argues that the greatest economic impact of AI will not come through software, but through Physical AI – AI in robots and physical systems. The analysis positions humanoid robotics as a potentially largest growth category for the next decade. For investors and industrial enterprises, this means a fundamental revaluation of hardware-focused AI investments.