Anthropic confidential IPO filing could value it near 965 billion, founders 80 percent wealth pledge funds effective altruism causes like Shrimp Welfare Project
Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO that could value the AI company near $965B when it lists as soon as October, per Bloomberg and CNBC. All seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth. One employee offered $50,000 in matching funds to the Shrimp Welfare
Anthropic confidentially filed paperwork for a US IPO in June that could value the AI company near $965 billion when it lists on Wall Street as soon as October, according to Bloomberg and CNBC. The filing would put Anthropic ahead of rival OpenAI in the race to go public. All seven Anthropic co-founders, including CEO Dario Amodei and President Daniela Amodei, have pledged to give away 80% of their personal wealth once their shares become liquid, according to Transformer News. Ahead of any actual payout, one Anthropic employee has already offered $50,000 in contingent matching funds to the Shrimp Welfare Project, an animal welfare nonprofit, reflecting how deeply the effective altruism movement is embedded among Anthropic staff. A completed IPO would convert pledges that today exist only on paper into real, spendable billions of dollars, testing how much of that promised money actually ends up reaching niche causes once the shares are tradable on the open market.