Anthropic's IPO filing is no ordinary Wall Street document
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The 335-page document employs an almost religious fervor as Anthropic asks investors to believe in its mission.
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Anthropic CEO Dario AmodeiAndrew Thomas/NurPhotoThis post originally appeared in the Business Insider Today newsletter.You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here.This wasn't your usual S-1 filing.Most are drab financial documents: revenue, liabilities, risk factors. Line after line. Page after page.Anthropic did something different. It wrote its own Good Book, BI's Henry Chandonnet writes.Anthropic's S-1 reads less like an IPO filing with the SEC than a dispatch from a heavenly mountaintop: the gospel according to Claude.An age of miracles? Check.A statement of good and evil? Naturally.A noble mission, mentioned 79 times? Amen.Seeking salvation for humanity and a blockbuster stock-market listing. Both, apparently, can fit on the same form.The language suggests Anthropic isn't merely asking investors to believe it can make money. It asks them to believe in a mission grand enough to make its enormous AI spending look like a necessary cost.That is the story Anthropic…