CBRS opened at $350 against a $185 IPO price, briefly hit $385, and closed day one at $311. Day two it dropped 10%. Classic pattern, but the story isn't really about Cerebras anymore.
The names now circulating: SpaceX (which merged with xAI in February), OpenAI, and Anthropic. If even one of those lists this year, we're talking about IPOs that could dwarf CBRS in size and attention.
The question I keep coming back to: does that capital rotate out of existing AI names, $NVDA, $AMD, $MSFT, $GOOGL, or does it pull in fresh money from people sitting on the sidelines?
Last time we had a mega-IPO wave (2020-2021), names like $SNOW and $COIN sucked up a lot of retail attention. Some existing holdings flatlined for months while IPO hype dominated. Oil is above $100 right now ($BNO, $USO both worth watching), yields are spiking, and the macro backdrop isn't clean, so institutional appetite for yet another richly-valued AI name isn't guaranteed.
I'm not trimming $NVDA but I'm not adding either. Watching $CBRS stabilize first before forming a view on whether the AI IPO pipeline is actually a rising tide or just a reallocation story.
What are you doing, holding, trimming, or waiting to rotate into the IPOs like the preSPAX & preOPAI that has began on some platforms?
Cerebras's $5.55B IPO opens the floodgates. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could all go public this year.
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It will probably come from cash on the sidelines or institutions will sell other tech to keep same sector allocation. The real winners will be the institutions that hold stakes in these companies pre-ipo selling. These companies IPO so late now there isn’t much upside.