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IT Home reported on October 27 that Anthropic filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, planning an initial public offering of Class A common stock and seeking to list on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ANT.”
IT Home noted that Anthropic reiterated in its IPO filing that the company will never display ads in Claude conversations.
The company also wrote in the filing: “People entrust Claude with their most important work and ask it their most personal questions. We want Claude’s sole goal to be providing helpful answers to users. Once advertising becomes part of a company’s revenue goals, pressure to optimize user engagement often increases, and we choose not to let that pressure into Claude.”
Notably, Anthropic has criticized rival OpenAI for placing ads in ChatGPT and warned that this form of advertising could be more manipulative than traditional advertising.