SpaceX Stages the Largest IPO Ever as the AI Public-Market Wave Builds, With OpenAI and Anthropic Next

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TechCrunch reports SpaceX went public this week in the largest IPO in history, framing it as the leading edge of a wave that OpenAI and Anthropic — the latter having confidentially filed at roughly a $965B private valuation — may soon join. The piece also surfaces the wealth concentration angle: ~10,000 employees across Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, and Meta have crossed $20M+ in net worth over five years. For builders, the read-through is that the frontier labs are about to face public-market disclosure and quarterly scrutiny, which historically reshapes pricing, roadmap transparency, and the pace of capability releases.