Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude language model, has chosen the Nasdaq as the venue for its public market debut — a deliberate step that places one of the most closely watched private AI ventures into the broader stream of public ownership. Founded in 2021 and backed by major institutional investors, the company now moves from the sheltered world of private capital into an arena where market sentiment, quarterly scrutiny, and open valuation will shape its story. The choice of Nasdaq, long the home of technology's most ambitious names, is itself a statement about how Anthropic