Anthropic has a large in-house PR machine (80 people). Main functions are "attention flooding", well-resourced news-blitz strategy.
> It is common practice for tech companies to offer escalating compensation awards to their executives. We are instead directing that equity to the public benefit.<p>Dario Amodei's 2025 total comp is reported to have been $18m.<p>His sister, Daniela Amodei's was $16.4m.<p>For reference, Sundar Pichai's reported comp in 2025 was $10.5m.
Is the $18m comp package based on secondary market valuations for stock or what? Seems like you'd want to be at least a little careful comparing public stock comp to private.
According to the company's confidential IPO S-1 prospectus filing revealed in October 2026 that Reuters reported on. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-pros...</a><p>I haven't seen the confidential prospectus and haven't read reports on whether it is based on secondary market value, but it is mostly stock. His base salary was only $1.4m in 2025, but doubled in 2026.
> Sundar Pichai has an estimated net worth of at least $1.0 billion*, as of Oct. 14, 2026. They own 2.2 million shares of GOOGL stock. They have sold 1.4 million shares of GOOGL stock since 2021, for an estimated $231.4 million.<p>Anthropic is pre IPO, so this is comparing apples to oranges.
In 2022, Sundar Pichai’s reported total compensation was about $226 million.<p>I'm not sure why you left that out?
A corporation so big it starts doing the job of the collective / state - interesting, whos job are they taking here? Why not pay taxes and let us, the people decide how to use it instead?
Straight out of Snowcrash.
The cyberpunk future awaits us! All hail the corpo owning class. I can't wait to move to the company town, those always work out well.
This is for PR. They need to be able to generate more revenue than they take from economically-redundant humans in order to make them whole. This is certainly possible, but it's going to take government action; AI companies are never going to return that much money left to their own devices.
Don Fanucci was publicly donating a lot of money in The Godfather.
The greatest public benefit you could provide would be to open source your models.
>We’re establishing the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund as a wholly-owned LLC—rather than a 501(c)(3) or other format—to give adjustability between different forms of giving.
Super cool! 5% of $1.5T is $75B (and 7% of $2.25T is $156B). When added to the ~15% already pledged by founders and employees, that's roughly $300B going to charity/public benefit, which roughly matches the OpenAI Foundation. Of course you can ask questions like why this amount or why this way, but I for one think it's fantastic for rich developers of new technology to share their surplus with the world. I hope their stockholders approve the donation.
A 2% for every 50% increase is just insulting.<p>It might have made sense when they were valued at <100B.<p>At current 2T valuation it's basically saying "we'll throw some crumbs to the public if we control the world's economy".
Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt.
I had to translate it.<p>> As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.<p>It's quite poetic. And tragically true.
"anthropic bad because some reason"
Just more self-serving hokum. If they really wanted to serve the public benefit they would just shut themselves down.
FTX Future Fund 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Will you launch a public benefit program that help unemployed software engineers become coal miners?<p>Please just fuck off with your next scam on a beige background.