News Summary

• Two giants of artificial intelligence, OpenAI and Anthropic, plan to go public in the next year or so.
• Some analysts have projected that Anthropic’s initial public offering (IPO) might bring in US$2 trillion, the largest in history.
• Tech entrepreneurs are also often keen to invest in new technology, and to harness the power of AI for biomedicine.
• Ultra-wealthy research investors follow a different strategy than do government funding agencies such as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)