Anthropic files S-1 for public offering
Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering. The company, known for its Claude family of AI models, is reportedly seeking a valuation of approximately $965 billion with a $47 billion revenue run-rate. The IPO filing comes as Anthropic also faces a legal battle with the Pentagon after being blacklisted as a supply chain risk for refusing to grant access to its models for autonomous weapons.
Nvidia ships Vera Rubin to customers
Nvidia announced at GTC Taipei that it has shipped first samples of its Vera Rubin VR200 AI platform to customers. The new architecture delivers 50 PFLOPS of FP4 compute and achieves a 10x reduction in inference cost compared to the previous Blackwell generation. Nvidia also released Cosmos 3, which it calls the first fully open physical AI omnimodel capable of vision reasoning, world generation, and action prediction.
Microsoft claims quantum reliability breakthrough
Microsoft announced its Majorana 2 quantum chip is now 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor. The company said the chip represents a major step forward in topological qubit technology. However, independent researchers remain skeptical about Microsoft's claims, noting that the company has not yet published peer-reviewed results demonstrating the performance gains.