Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All

If anthropological is planned To seek investment from the UAE and Qatar according to one Slack message CEO Dario Amodai Was sent to the staff on Sunday morning, which received the wired.

By weight and weight, Amodi admits in his notes that taking money from the leaders of the Middle East will probably enrich the “dictator”. “This is a real negative side and I’m not shocked about it,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I think ‘a bad person should never benefit from our success’ to run a business is a great difficult policy” “

This message comes as a competition for AI companies to secure a large amount of capital required for training and development of Frontier AI models. In January Declaration A $ 500 billion data center project called Stargate with financial support from the state -owned Emirates Investment Agency MGX. Four months later, the agency Declaration “It was planned to create a data center in Abu Dhabi to help foreign governments to create a sovereign AI capacity by coordinating in the United States.”

“As American Organization on the border of AI development, we always believe that the Frontier AI model development should be chain to maintain American leadership,” anthropological spokesman Christopher Nalti said in a statement. “As Dario has said earlier, we fundamentally believe in sharing the benefits of AI and serve commercially in the Middle East and regions around the world in line with our use principles.”

In May, President Donald Trump focused on economic investment and visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as part of a four -day trip. A cable of tech leaders, including Elon Mask, Sam Altman and Nvidia Chief Jensen Huang, Joining He is a meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. The ethnographic leadership was significantly absent.

In his memory, Amodai admitted that the decision to invest from authoritarian governments would lead to hypocrisy allegations. In an article titled “Loving Grace Machines”, Amedei writes: “Both strong AIs should be able to set the terms that have been brought to the world to avoid the power of dictators and to prevent human rights in authoritarian countries.”

In 2021, ethnographic national security concerns decided not to receive money from Saudi Arabia, Per CNBCThe This news came as FTX, the failed cryptocurrency exchange went into the bankruptcy and sell about 8 percent of the ethnicity. In the end, most of these shares went into the UAE’s ATIC III international investment. At that time, this part was worth about $ 500 million.

Now, it is ready to accept the meaning of the ethnographic Gulf state – though the company did not say whether he had changed its position in Saudi Arabia, especially. “In the Middle East, there is a huge amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $ 100b or more in the Middle East.” “If we want to be on the border, we get very big benefits in getting access to this capital. It is hard enough to be on the border without it.”