SpaceX’s $3 trillion debut is expected to spark a wave of AI mega IPOs

Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s successful offering over the weekend is preparing stock markets for the IPOs of two mega artificial intelligence stocks – Anthropic and OpenAI – that will also need to raise unprecedented amounts of money from the public.

Musk’s rocket, satellite communications and AI conglomerate had the perfect debut on Saturday morning (AEST), closing at a 19 percent premium to the $135 ($191) that new investors paid for each share – including tens of thousands of Australian buyers.

It is unknown how many local retail investors landed on SpaceX shares through the IPO process, but CommSec, one of eight brokers in Australia offering IPO shares to investors, has closed its orders…