Anthropic pre-IPO credit facility set to climb past $10 billion

The Claude chatbot maker’s proposed expansion of its so-called revolver is drawing a clutch of banks seeking to bolster their pitch for roles on the IPO, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.

Discussions are ongoing and the company could decide to limit the size of the revolver to the target or even below, the people said.

Anthropic has asked the most active banks leading the credit line to lend about $1.25 billion, with the next level of active banks being encouraged to offer around $1 billion, and with the commitments dropping to roughly $750 million and lower for less active roles, some of the people said.

Generally, in syndicated loans, the higher the commitment of a bank, the higher the fees it gets paid by a borrower. When a large capital market transaction is expected, a higher ranking in a loan is likely to correspond to a more active role in the upcoming deal.

A representative for Anthropic declined to comment.

Morgan Stanley, Barclays Plc, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Royal Bank of Canada and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, according to a LinkedIn post at the time.

Anthropic is working with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on the IPO, Bloomberg News has reported.

The expanded lending facility comes weeks after banks led by Morgan Stanley were in talks to line up $15 billion of debt for an Anthropic data-center project in Texas, backstopped by Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Bloomberg News reported. That package for data-center developer Nexus Data Centers would consist of a $14 billion bridge loan and a revolving credit facility, people familiar with the matter have said.

The AI race has fired up the IPO market, with listings this year raising $257 billion, excluding blank-check firms and other financial vehicles, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s the most raised in a year since 2021, the data show.

Anthropic and its rival OpenAI have filed confidential paperwork to go public, with Anthropic expected to make its Wall Street debut as soon as this fall, ahead of OpenAI.

Bank of America Corp. handed a $520 million credit line to OpenAI earlier this summer as it joined an existing undrawn facility set up by competitors, Bloomberg News reported, boosting the capital available for OpenAI to more than $5 billion.

Anthropic’s run rate, a metric that projects full-year revenuefrom a shorter period, hit $65 billion by the end of July, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. The dramatic acceleration in revenue bolsters Anthropic’s plans for a public listing.

The company reported a preliminary revenue figure of more than $11.5 billion in its latest completed quarter, compared with $787 million in the corresponding period in 2025, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News. It also reported positive adjusted operating income for the quarter, the documents show.

Anthropic is meeting with investors ahead of its potential mega-IPO, people familiar with the matter said in July.

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