Exclusive-Investors temper Anthropic IPO valuation expectations over revenue growth slowdown, sources say

By Milana Vinn and Anirban Sen NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) Some current Anthropic investors and prospective investors in its upcoming initial public offering are weighing a lower valuation for the AI company after its latest financial disclosures, four people familiar with the matter said, amid broader concerns over the ballooning ​cost of financing AI. Some investors who attended Anthropic s investor day on Wednesday in San Francisco discussed ‌a valuation of around $1.5 trillion, three of the people said, a significant step down from the roughly $2 trillion valuation that investors had previously expected for the November share sale. At Wednesday s meeting, Anthropic told prospective IPO investors that its third-quarter revenue jumped 45% to $16.8 billion from the previous quarter, and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis during the quarter. While those numbers assuaged some concerns about the massive costs ‌of ​developing AI systems, some investors were disappointed by the s