Investing in the public benefit

andsoitis

> It is common practice for tech companies to offer escalating compensation awards to their executives. We are instead directing that equity to the public benefit. Dario Amodei's 2025 total comp is reported to have been $18m. His sister, Daniela Amodei's was $16.4m. For reference, Sundar Pichai's reported comp in 2025 was $10.5m.

jimmydoe

Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt.

crmd

>We’re establishing the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund as a wholly-owned LLC—rather than a 501(c)(3) or other format—to give adjustability between different forms of giving.

nickysielicki

FTX Future Fund 2: Electric Boogaloo.

ryan_glass

The greatest public benefit you could provide would be to open source your models.

go_elmo

A corporation so big it starts doing the job of the collective / state - interesting, whos job are they taking here? Why not pay taxes and let us, the people decide how to use it instead?

novaRom

Anthropic has a large in-house PR machine (80 people). Main functions are "attention flooding", well-resourced news-blitz strategy.

128375

Will you launch a public benefit program that help unemployed software engineers become coal miners? Please just fuck off with your next scam on a beige background.

jfckenfishf

A 2% for every 50% increase is just insulting. It might have made sense when they were valued at <100B. At current 2T valuation it's basically saying "we'll throw some crumbs to the public if we control the world's economy". At the very minimum the 2% should have doubled every time.

BrenBarn

Just more self-serving hokum. If they really wanted to serve the public benefit they would just shut themselves down.

tedsanders

Super cool! 5% of $1.5T is $75B (and 7% of $2.25T is $156B). When added to the ~15% already pledged by founders and employees, that's roughly $300B going to charity/public benefit, which roughly matches the OpenAI Foundation. Of course you can ask questions like why this amount or why this way, but I for one think it's fantastic for rich developers of new technology to share their surplus with the world. I hope their stockholders approve the donation.

herunan

It feels disingenuous when a company attaches to market valuation the amount of public good they do. By that logic, they could say: "We didn't do well in the market, so we're not investing as much in making the world a better place."

frexs

feels like a prenup for government bailout

islewis

It is hard to take the "Public Benefit" narrative from Ant seriously. If developing technology in the name of public benefit was truly the mission, taking the company public would have been immediately shot down- you cannot trick yourself into believing that any of these mission values will be allowed to operate under public shareholders for very long, especially due to the massive dilution Ant has seen in the last few years. Given OpenAI already did its mask-off moment with their un-nonprofiting, which did not appear to damage them much after the media cycle blew over, I am a bit surprised Anthropic is deciding to continue with this lip service.