Carrington Clarke

This is kind of one of the drawbacks of actually being listed is that there are supposed to be stricter rules on the way that these companies operate.

But usually, well, at least the companies decide to go public.

The reason they do it is because they can get better access to money.

particularly at a time when we have so much passive investment.

And when you're on that index, you get a huge amount of investment in your company just because of your size.

And these companies are going to be immediately massive players on the stock market.

So we've got a situation now in 2026

with three potentially trillion dollar plus launches on the US stock market.

SpaceX is expected to go public this month.

This is the Elon Musk backed enterprise.

The SpaceX refers to its space exploration, but that's only one part of the business.

That part is linked directly to his satellite system that allows high-speed internet, Starlink, which is actually where most of the profit is currently coming from.

But they're really trying to market this as an AI play as well.

He's got Grok attached to X, what was formerly known as Twitter.

I mean, it's a complicated mess of a company.

But Elon Musk is definitely trying to argue that this is one of the direct competitors with OpenAI, with Anthropic, and is vying to be one of the major players.

to control the transformation into our AI.

It'll be launching in the next couple of weeks, it looks like.

Is there a race going on to get there?

And why might there be a race between these big three players to be the first to get to market?