Anthropic was founded to answer to humanity. Soon, it will also answer to Wall Street - CNN
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In 2021, a group of employees at OpenAI left to start a new company focused on the safe development of artificial intelligence. They named it Anthropic, a word that means ârelating to humanity.â Later this month, that company is expected to make its debut on Wall Street in what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in history. But the move raises a fundamental question: Can a company put humanity first while also answering to Wall Street? The IPO is a monumental development for the AI boom and will put a spotlight on how investors feel about the maker of the Claude chatbot. The stock market debut also marks a new chapter for Anthropic that will test whether it can balance its mission of safely developing AI with the pressures of being a publicly traded company. Anthropic has a special ownership structure designed to help the company stick to its original goals, balance profit growth with its mission and keep investors from staging a takeover. The structure includes a group of trustees who have majority control of the board of directors, as well as a special class of shares that ensures the seven founders own a majority of the general shareholder voting power. With its mission for safe AI and its unorthodox corporate structure, Anthropicâs Wall Street debut can be viewed as a guinea pig for AI frontier labs and how they are received by investors. Public benefit corporation Anthropic is registered as a public benefit corporation, or PBC. These types of companies are legally required to balance the interests of shareholders with the companyâs stated mission. Itâs different from a traditional company that focuses primarily on maximizing shareholder value. âThe governance structure for Anthropic is very unique,â said Gil Luria, head of…
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