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OpenAI and Anthropic are moving financing beyond equity into credit. Per the FT, Goldman and Morgan Stanley have approached rating agencies on both companies behalf, targeting investment-grade ratings post-IPO. Neither has issued debt yet. Anthropic is reportedly near a $15B revolving credit facility and an IPO at roughly $2T. OpenAI wants independent long-term funding for chip, data center and compute spend. A rating opens the bond market and cuts reliance on equity raises and partner credit.
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#AIInvestmentGrade AI's next big funding source may be the bond market 👀
OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly pursuing investment-grade ratings, potentially opening access to cheaper, longer-term debt for massive compute and data center spending.
What caught my attention is what this says about AI's evolution.
The industry was funded by venture capital, then strategic partners. Now it wants bonds.
AI isn't just becoming a technology sector. It's becoming a new credit market.
Anthropic’s AI Story Is Getting Bigger — But $208 Is the Level I’d Watch
The Anthropic story is getting stronger, but I wouldn’t chase the headline alone. Anthropic recently expanded Claude with new frontier models, while its AI infrastructure spending is accelerating. The company has also reportedly signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda as it prepares for a potential IPO. Here’s the interesting part: Growth is no longer just about better models — it’s about how much compute Anthropic can secure to monetize them. At your quoted $208.01 level, I’d treat
An investment-grade rating would change how AI expansion is financed, not prove that the economics work.
OpenAI and Anthropic are seeking ratings that could open bond markets, though neither has issued debt yet. My read: broader funding options could ease reliance on equity, but borrowing would make the timing of cash flows more consequential for compute-heavy growth.
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OpenAI与Anthropic筹备信用评级
OpenAI just launched the financial services version of ChatGPT (using GPT-6 Astra), and immediately teamed up with Anthropic to prepare a credit rating, targeting the $11 trillion corporate bond market. AI wants to both make money and borrow heavily to build infrastructure
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OpenAI just launched the financial services version of ChatGPT (using GPT-6 Astra), and immediately teamed up with Anthropic to prepare a credit rating, targeting the $11 trillion corporate bond market. AI wants to both make money and borrow heavily to build infrastructure.
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🦔Wall Street's biggest banks are lobbying credit rating agencies to give OpenAI and Anthropic investment-grade ratings right after their IPOs. Neither company is profitable. Neither generates positive free cash flow. An investment-grade rating would let pension funds and insurers buy their debt and open access to the $11.7 trillion corporate bond market. One senior credit analyst told the FT "we still treat OpenAI and Anthropic as deep in speculative grade. They are in the red."
Previous tech companies like Meta, Netflix, and Tesla waited a decade or more.
My Take
An investment-grade rating means pension funds and insurers can buy this debt. Meaning your retirement money and your insurance premiums flowing into two companies that have never turned a profit. The bankers' argument is that the IPO itself will fix the balance sheet, but credit is supposed to measure whether a company can pay its debts from operations, not whether it can sell enough stock to cover that gap.
Everyone in this chain needs these ratings to go through. Nvidia has $105 billion in credit support for an OpenAI data center that terminates when OpenAI gets a "satisfactory credit rating." Oracle is one notch above junk after financing OpenAI's $300 billion data center buildout. Google and Broadcom extended tens of billions to back Anthropic's chip usage.
If the rating agencies stamp two unprofitable companies as investment grade so that pension funds can hold the debt, I think we need to have a serious conversation about what those ratings mean anymore. We had that conversation in 2008 and apparently we already forgot about it.
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[Pharaoh's Market Watch]
OpenAI and Anthropic are already considering issuing bonds even before going public? Pharaoh directly says this is even more worth watching than the IPO itself — investment banks are fighting to secure an "investment-grade at birth" credit rating for them, aiming to directly enter the $11.7 trillion U.S. corporate bond market and reduce the financing costs of AI infrastructure.
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By early October, OpenAI will also be ahead of where it is now.
But well, important to save face before an IPO
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🚨 SCOOP: Anthropic are planning to launch a successor to Fable 5.1 before their IPO in late September, potentially early October if timelines slip a little
The model is Anthropic's first fresh pretrain for the Fable class, and they're confident it will dethrone Astra. The general mood among those I spoke to at Anthropic was that Astra was impressive but not something they were losing sleep about
What a crazy month
