Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

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Anthropic is allocating 5% of its equity to the Long-term Benefit Trust, a move designed to decouple a portion of its value from commercial interests. The fund will be managed by independent trustees to ensure the company stays aligned with its mission of developing safe AI. It is essentially a high-stakes experiment in corporate governance for the AGI era.