Anthropic's corporate structure
Crucial structural details for researchers tracking AI governance and corporate control in major AI companies.
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Anthropic amended its certificate of incorporation as it prepares for an IPO, with the author predicting more significant changes to founder voting rights before the offering closes.
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Anthropic amended their certificate of incorporation a few weeks ago, because they plan on doing an IPO soon. I think they'll probably amend it again immediately before they close the IPO, and that amendment will probably be a lot more interesting than the most recent one (i.e. that one would be the amendment that gives special voting rights to founders, as was reported). In this post I will describe the current (pre-IPO) corporate structure of Anthropic. This post isn't very interesting; I'm mo