Meta Files $95 Billion AI Raise, Anthropic IPO Shows $80.7 Billion Loss

The two most significant AI capital events of the year landed on the same Monday. Meta Platforms filed a financing plan to raise up to $95 billion to fund its artificial-intelligence buildout, and Anthropic publicly filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosing an $80.7 billion first-half loss alongside $16.3 billion in revenue. Read together, the two filings map the next leg of the equity-funded AI spending boom, a wave that Goldman Sachs estimates at about $7.6 trillion of AI-related capital spending from 2026 through 2031.

Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, announced the plan in a press release on the morning of Monday, October 26. The company will first raise roughly $35 billion in two concurrent underwritten public offerings: about $22.5 billion of Class A common stock and about $12.5 billion of depositary shares representing mandatory convertible preferred stock, each depositary share a 1/20th interest in a share of Series A preferred. Meta granted underwriters 30-day options to expand both pieces, up to an additional $3.375 billion of Class A and up to an additional 37.5 million depositary shares.

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After that comes a separate at-the-market program of up to $60 billion of Meta's newly created Class C non-voting common stock. Meta said that program is not expected to begin until the first quarter of 2027, after Class C shares start trading, which the company expects to happen in January. The ATM program is not conditioned on the underwritten offerings, and Meta cautioned that no agreement exists yet and the program could differ or not launch at all.

Three chipmakers at the center of the AI supply chain signaled they want in. Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom, which Meta describes as cornerstone investors, each indicated an interest in purchasing up to a combined $5 billion of Class A shares at the same price and on the same terms as other buyers. The indications are not binding commitments, Meta said.

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Meta framed the raise as support for continued investment in AI infrastructure and personal superintelligence, citing its family of apps, its AI agent Muse and its data-center business. The company said it would fund the buildout through a balanced mix of operating cash flow, investment-grade debt, strategic partnerships and equity capital. Meta generated $97 billion of operating cash flow in the first three quarters of 2026 and finished the third quarter with about $82 billion of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.

The market priced the dilution. Meta shares fell 1.6% in Monday morning trading after the announcement, CNBC reported, and the Wall Street Journal put the decline at 1.39%. The move is the concrete repricing of the equity cost of AI, the counterweight to the bullish narrative of record AI spending.

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Hours earlier, Anthropic, the maker of the Claude models, took its first step toward a public listing with a public S-1 filing, the first time it has opened its books to investors. In its public S-1 filing, the company reported $16.3 billion of revenue in the six months ended June, up from $4.6 billion for all of 2025. Anthropic said it spent about $9 billion on AI infrastructure in the first half of the year, already ahead of the $7.3 billion it spent in all of 2025.

The loss is the headline number. Anthropic reported a net loss of $80.7 billion through June, and $42 billion for 2025, but the vast majority reflects accounting charges tied to changes in the fair value of financing instruments that can convert into shares, not cash spent running the business. The prospectus also disclosed that roughly a fifth of Anthropic's first-half revenue came from just two customers, a concentration risk the company flagged.

Related reading: OpenAI Funding Round: $30B Raise Targets a $1.4 Trillion Valuation.

Behind the operating numbers sit enormous locked-in commitments. Anthropic said it plans to spend upward of $430 billion on cloud-computing deals with companies including Amazon and Google, two of its largest investors, a figure that reaches as much as $637 billion when cancellable and smaller arrangements are included. Commitments on that scale are how the AI buildout turns vendor agreements into long-dated, largely non-refundable revenue for the data-center and chip supply chain.

Anthropic will list on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the underwriting syndicate, Reuters reported. The filing did not disclose the number of shares for sale or a proposed price range. Some current and prospective investors value the company at about $1.5 trillion, down from roughly $2 trillion a week earlier, after Anthropic disclosed financial details at a recent investor event, Reuters reported.

What the same-day filings say

The two events land at an unusual moment for AI markets. Goldman Sachs estimates AI-related capital spending, spanning compute, data centers and power, could total about $7.6 trillion from 2026 through 2031. At the same time, global equities have sold off as investors question whether the debt-fueled buildout will generate returns fast enough, and a crowded autumn IPO calendar has thinned as volatility prompts companies to delay. Anthropic is pressing ahead anyway, a bet that its revenue trajectory can support a roughly $1.5 trillion valuation even as it reaches for ever larger capital commitments.

Both stories turn on the same underlying shift: the AI buildout is moving toward equity financing. A frontier lab sells a stake to investors, and a hyperscaler sells stock to fund data centers and superintelligence research. For investors the dated numbers are the point: Meta's stated plan is among the largest cash-raising programs disclosed to date, and Anthropic's S-1 publishes the largest set of locked-in compute commitments ever laid out by a pre-IPO AI company. The open question is whether public equity markets can keep absorbing offerings of this size as the spending cycle extends into 2027 and beyond.

Meta press release, October 26, 2026 · CNBC, October 26, 2026 · The Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2026 · Anthropic S-1, SEC EDGAR · Reuters via Telegraph India, October 26, 2026 · Yahoo Finance, October 26, 2026

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