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Given OpenAI already did its mask-off moment with their un-nonprofiting, which did not appear to damage them much after the media cycle blew over, I am a bit surprised Anthropic is deciding to continue with this lip service.
Dario Amodei's 2025 total comp is reported to have been $18m.
His sister, Daniela Amodei's was $16.4m.
For reference, Sundar Pichai's reported comp in 2025 was $10.5m.
Sundar Pichai was given a $692M pay package this year (incentive-linked over three years)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/07/google-just-gave-sundar-pi...
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/alphabet-google-c...
It shows his comp over a number of years, including these enormous 3 year packages that are a ceiling, not a guarantee.
Picked 2025 specifically instead of the 2022 three year package or the 2026 three year package, to make it more comparable to what you might expect from a pre-IPO company like Anthropic; otherwise it would be too much apples and oranges.
Anthropic is pre IPO, so this is comparing apples to oranges.
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.
I'm not sure why you left that out?
Maybe because the current administration has no interest in doing this and Anthropic doesn't want to wait for this cluster-f of a situation to sort itself out. Even if the current admin was for progressive taxation it might take them years to sort through all the bureaucracy to use this money effectively which might be much too late.
But in theory I think you're right.
> As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs.
It's quite poetic. And tragically true.
Apparently it is lost on an Anthropic bot.
Is it? Idk about previously committed money, but this sounds like it's going to an LLC that is owned and controlled by anthropic.
Afaik there's no formal constraint preventing them from spending 100% of this money on cool sports cars for anthropic execs. Even if it was committed to being spent on the "public good", that's the public good as decided by anthropic, not the public.
Please just fuck off with your next scam on a beige background.
It might have made sense when they were valued at <100B.
At current 2T valuation it's basically saying "we'll throw some crumbs to the public if we control the world's economy".
At the very minimum the 2% should have doubled every time.
Yes, to make it more comparable to what you might expect from a pre-IPO company like Anthropic; otherwise it would be apples and oranges.
Read https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/alphabet-google-c... which gives you a sense of how and why it varies. Know also that the $692m number is a ceiling, not a guarantee.
anthropic bad not because it makes profit (FYI, it doesn't). anthropic bad because its PR and marketing departments have adopted a strategy of concealing their stakeholders' regulatory capture efforts behind the obnoxious narrative of it being the only company that can be trusted with the technology. this particular fluff is an effort to demonstrate how heckin' wholesome they are.