The U.S. government sold Anthropic shares seized from FTX, cashing out approximately $627 million.

BlockBeats news, October 28 — Anthropic's S-1 filing discloses that in October 2025, the company repurchased 4,453,900 forfeited Series B preferred shares from the U.S. government for approximately $627 million, at a price of $140.9676 per share, and subsequently resold them to 9 qualified investors at the same price. The U.S. government used the funds to repay FTX creditors.

Based on Anthropic's pre-IPO valuation ahead of its Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT, these shares are currently worth approximately $3.94 billion.