Anthropic’s IPO march began with a Claude Code breakthrough
# Anthropic's AI Coding Tool Became So Good It Changed the Company's Future Anthropic released a smarter version of its AI assistant Claude in late November that could finally build entire software applications from start to finish based on simple human instructions—something competitors couldn't do as well. This breakthrough made Claude's coding tool so valuable to software engineers that it transformed Anthropic from an overlooked competitor into a company worth investing in, putting it on track for a public stock offering.
Last fall, Anthropic was playing second fiddle to OpenAI. It had a lower valuation, while OpenAI was still drawing much of the attention as the first mover in the generative AI boom. But the dynamic shifted in late November, when Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, which gave the company’s Claude Co
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