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Anthropic said on Sunday, October 18, that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a wholly owned LLC that could make large donations to nonprofits or 'direct distributions to specific populations', with AI-driven job disruption named as one cause, subject to stockholder approval and weeks before a planned November IPO. On Monday Elon Musk replied that the shares should go 'directly to the public' and pledged one of his own SpaceX shares to 'every kid in America' next year, roughly 72 million shares worth about $10.5 billion at Friday's $146.03 close. Neither plan comes with eligibility rules, payment amounts, or a date, and critics from David Sacks to Gary Marcus say the Anthropic fund keeps control inside the company.
