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FT: Speaking with Jamie Dimon at a JPMorgan event in New York, Dario Amodei shrugged off market turmoil during Anthropic's roadshow.
JPMorgan is underwriting the Nasdaq listing set for Thursday, and Amodei told its bankers Anthropic is “not super fussed” about timing or market conditions.
The listing exists mainly to stockpile cash, since he called compute “the deepest business dilemma that the company faces.”
It held over $130B in cash at the end of September, and the oversubscribed offering plus a private placement could add $100B or more.
That buffer backs a planned $900B of infrastructure spending, including SpaceX data center deals worth up to $3.1B a month.
Dario Amodei: Anthropic is set to spend $900B on compute, yet buys "relatively little" compared to rivals
Dario Amodei on a live-streamed with JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon as part of Anthropic’s IPO roadshow.
Anthropic locks in only a modest, cheaper amount of computing power ahead of time, so it is safe if demand turns out weaker than expected.
If demand comes in strong, it will buy extra capacity on the "spot market", which means renting available compute on short notice at the going price, instead of making huge long-term bets upfront.
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