"Follow the Money": A Timeline Accuses Anthropic of Funding-IPO-Safety Club Rules
alex_verem · x · 2026-09-17
A viral thread strings together Anthropic's timeline: a $65B raise at a $965B valuation (May 28), a confidential IPO filing (June 1), and a safety framework proposing mandatory obligations for labs above 10²⁵ FLOP and $500M AI revenue (June 10) — which the author calls a "club rule" Anthropic itself sits inside. It also notes $517B in compute locked up versus $180B previously projected through 2029, and cites pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon's September 9 departure. Speculative commentary, not officially confirmed.
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