Anthropic just announced they're allocating 20% of their equity for "public benefit" purposes.
This is either:
• Genuine alignment move before AGI
• PR play to dodge regulation
• Setting up for nonprofit conversion like OpenAI tried
Either way, watch how this affects their $30B+ valuation and future funding rounds. If other AI labs follow, could reshape the entire AI equity market structure.
Crypto angle: More reason for decentralized AI infrastructure plays. When centralized AI labs start giving away equity stakes, it validates the thesis that value capture might shift to compute/data layers.
This is either:
• Genuine alignment move before AGI
• PR play to dodge regulation
• Setting up for nonprofit conversion like OpenAI tried
Either way, watch how this affects their $30B+ valuation and future funding rounds. If other AI labs follow, could reshape the entire AI equity market structure.
Crypto angle: More reason for decentralized AI infrastructure plays. When centralized AI labs start giving away equity stakes, it validates the thesis that value capture might shift to compute/data layers.