According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Anthropic completed its Series H funding round at a $96.5 billion valuation, all seven of the company’s founders became billionaires overnight, each holding shares worth approximately $8 billion — though none individually own more than 1% of the company’s total equity. This marks the largest single-day addition of billionaires from a single company in Bloomberg’s history. Besides Dario Amodei and his sister Daniela Amodei, other first-time billionaire co-founders include GPT-3 core contributors Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, and Christopher Olah — most of whom previously worked at OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic in 2021. A report from Cailianshe also cited sources saying that despite just closing a new funding round, Anthropic still plans to proceed with its IPO on schedule, potentially going public as early as this fall.
This month’s AI wealth boom doesn’t stop there: Cerebras Systems’ founders became billionaires after the company went public, Surge Lab’s Edwin Chen has amassed a personal fortune of $13 billion, and a total of 19 new billionaires from the AI space joined the ranks this month. For comparison, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang’s wealth surged from $10.9 billion in October 2022 to over $177 billion, making him the world’s eighth-richest person. Notably, Anthropic’s seven founders have pledged to donate 80% of their personal wealth. In January, Dario Amodei publicly stated that “what we truly need to worry about is wealth concentration reaching levels high enough to destroy society,” arguing that those at the forefront of the AI economy should be willing to give away wealth and power.