Thomas Niel, The Motley Fool
Tue, June 23, 2026 astatine 5:38 AM CDT 4 min read
Following the archetypal nationalist offering of Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX), aka SpaceX, connected June 12, determination are 2 much trillion-dollar companies gearing up to go immoderate of this year's biggest IPO stocks: apical artificial quality (AI) start-ups Anthropic and OpenAI. As SpaceX includes not conscionable Elon Musk's space-related ventures but besides his AI start-up, xAI, Musk's recently nationalist institution competes with these 2 companies.
After SpaceX raised $85.7 billion, connected a valuation of astir $1.8 trillion, some Anthropic and OpenAI volition apt vie to spot if they tin bushed it, successful presumption of some superior raised and post-IPO valuation. Let's instrumentality a look astatine each of these nationalist and soon-to-be-public AI stocks and spot whether they are worthy adding to your bargain list.
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SpaceX's debut paves the mode for much blockbuster IPOs
If you thought SpaceX went nationalist astatine nosebleed valuation, see however investors person kept bidding it up post-IPO. Since its debut little than 2 weeks ago, shares successful the Musk-founded institution person rallied by conscionable implicit 23%. With a $2.43 trillion marketplace cap, it's much invaluable than different abstraction stocks by a wide margin. The wide occurrence of the SpaceX IPO arguably paves the mode for Anthropic and OpenAI to person palmy IPOs arsenic well.
Of the 2 AI start-ups, Anthropic is the closest to going public. On June 1, the institution down the fashionable Claude AI level confidentially submitted its Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
With Anthropic precocious raising $65 cardinal astatine a $965 cardinal valuation, the indications are that erstwhile it goes public, the offering could bushed SpaceX's record-setting raise, adjacent if Anthropic fails to lucifer its valuation. OpenAI, the institution down ChatGPT, has besides precocious filed its confidential S-1 filing with the SEC.
Yet portion existent likelihood connected prediction markets similar Kalshi suggest Anthropic volition spell nationalist this fall, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's vague statements astir "going nationalist wrong the adjacent year" person Kalshi traders divided implicit whether the institution volition spell nationalist aboriginal this twelvemonth oregon during the archetypal fractional of 2027. Moreover, with OpenAI's latest backing circular valuing it astatine $852 billion, it's unclear whether the institution volition deed a trillion-dollar valuation post-IPO.

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