PBC计划从日本投资者筹资高达35亿美元，用于其在美国的首次公开募股，将这家人工智能初创公司的里程碑式股票出售带到一个缺乏首次公开募股的市场。
PBC aims to raise up to $3.5 billion from Japanese investors in its initial public offering in the US, bringing the landmark share sale by the artificial-intelligence startup to a market starved of first-time offerings.
瑞穗证券公司将管理该股票出售的日本部分，而高盛集团、三菱日联摩根士丹利证券公司和摩根士丹利三菱UFJ证券公司等公司将处理投资者订单，据周一的一份监管文件显示。瑞穗金融集团和三菱日联金融集团是该交易的承销商之一。
Mizuho Securities Co. will manage the Japanese portion of the share sale, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. and Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co. are among companies that will handle investor orders, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. are among the underwriters of the deal.
这使得日本成为少数几个投资者可以直接参与该大型IPO的市场之一，该国的首次公开募股已降至14年来的最低水平。除日本外，澳大利亚、加拿大和欧洲部分地区的投资者也将能够购买这家Claude聊天机器人制造商的首次股票出售。
That makes the country, where first-time offerings have dried up to a 14-year low, one of the few markets whose investors will have direct access to the mega IPO. Apart from Japan, investors in Australia, Canada and parts of Europe will also be able to buy into the initial share sale of the Claude chatbot maker.
Anthropic上个月提交了备受期待的IPO申请，因为各公司纷纷抢占股权市场。随着Meta Platforms Inc.寻求通过出售普通股和优先股筹资高达950亿美元，以及Alphabet Inc.计划进行高达850亿美元的股权融资，Anthropic的IPO将考验投资者对一波新的人工智能相关股票的需求。
Anthropic filed for the long-awaited IPO last month as companies rush to tap equity markets. With Meta Platforms Inc. seeking to raise as much as $95 billion from selling common and preferred stock and Alphabet Inc. aiming for up to $85 billion in equity financing, Anthropic’s IPO will test investor appetite for a wave of new shares of AI-related shares.