Anthropic is planning According to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to the general director of Slack Dario Amodei, sent to the staff on Sunday morning, which he received.
Weighing the advantages and disadvantages, Amodea admitted in his note that the adoption of money from the Middle East leaders would probably enrich “dictators”. “This is a real minus and I’m not excited about it,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I think that” no bad person should never benefit from our success “is a fairly difficult rule of running a company.”
The message appears when AI is racing to secure huge amounts of capital required for training and developing AI Frontier models. Openai in January announced Data center project worth $ 500 billion called Stargate with financial support from MGX, the Emirati State Investment Company. Four months later the company announced It was planned to build a data center in Abu Dhabi, as part of support to support foreign governments “build sovereign AI in coordination with the USA”.
“As an American company on the border between the development of artificial intelligence, we have always believed that the AI model supply chain should be on American land to maintain America’s leader,” said anthropic spokesman Christopher Nulty in a statement. “As Dario said earlier, we believe that they generally share the benefits of artificial intelligence and commercially serve the Middle East and regions around the world, in accordance with our policy of use.”
In May, President Donald Trump concerts in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as part of a four -day journey focusing on economic investments. Kabal of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Altman himself and the head of Nvidia Jensen Huang, joined He to meet the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Anthropic leadership was particularly absent.
In his note, Amodea admitted that the decision to implement the investment from authoritarian regimes would lead to accusations of hypocrisy. In an essay entitled “The machine -loving grace” he wrote: “Democracy must be able to determine the conditions in which the powerful AI is brought to the world, both in order to avoid incapacitated by the authorities and preventing human rights violations in authoritarian countries.”
In 2024, Anthropic decided not to accept money from Saudi Arabia, citing concerns about national security, on CNBC. The message appeared when FTX, a failed exchange of cryptocurrencies, went to bankruptcy proceedings, and its almost 8 percent of the shares in the anthropic increased for sale. Ultimately, most of these shares went to ATIC the third international investment, the ZEA company. At that time, it was worth about $ 500 million.
Now it seems that anthropic is accepted to accept the money in the Persian Gulf – although the company did not say whether it has changed its position on Saudi Arabia in particular. “There is a really gigantic amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $ 100 billion or more,” he wrote Amodea in a note. “If we want to stay on the border, we gain a lot of benefit from access to this capital. Without it it is much harder to stay on the border.”