Anthropic Eyes October Nasdaq IPO at Valuation Up to $2 Trillion, Report Says
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-09-14
A roundup of key AI news: Anthropic has reportedly picked Nasdaq for a potential IPO targeted for October, with market valuation expectations reaching as high as $2 trillion — which would make it the largest tech IPO ever. SoftBank secured an $11.87 billion two-year loan from 20 banks to back its OpenAI investment, exceeding its original $10 billion goal.
Other items: ByteDance's Doubao phone assistant consumer version launched with the first device on sale Sept 16; DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash went live on Alibaba's Qwen AI platform; per OpenRouter data, Chinese LLMs logged 61.17 trillion weekly tokens, topping the US for 20 straight weeks; China's NMPA approved the world's first BCI medical-device standard using AI for EEG processing; Microsoft CEO Nadella endorsed careful AI development and 'embedded evaluators,' previewing a conduct code for its MAI models.
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