Kevin Rooose: OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs could earmark $460B — 5 Gates Foundations — for philanthropy
kevinroose · x · 2026-10-19
NYT journalist Kevin Roose calculates that if Anthropic and OpenAI each go public at $1 trillion ("probably conservative"), roughly $460 billion — about 5 Gates Foundations — would be earmarked for philanthropy-shaped things, jokingly urging people to start their 501c3s now.
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