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Anthropic's elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay

Anthropic, ahead of its impending IPO, aims to balance public market funding with its safety-first mission. The company plans to use a complex governance structure to resist investor pressure for faster product releases that might compromise safety. This contrasts with OpenAI's decision to avoid an IPO this year due to similar pressures.

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Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater risks, and shareholders eager for returns may have little patience for costly safety measures that slow products on their way to market.

Sam Altman, the CEO of Anthropic's archrival, OpenAI, has cited investor pressures as one reason the company is not pursuing an IPO this year. Anthropic hopes it can resist investor pressures with a mind-boggling governance structure.

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