David Sacks throws Anthropic’s $2T IPO into question

David Sacks said on Thursday that Anthropic’s initial public offering should be put on hold after Jacob Coxon informed the public that AI laboratories are “gambling with our lives.” In his post on X, Sacks stated that the IPO “must be paused until the claims of this ‘whistleblower’ can be investigated.”

With the public offering at the forefront of the investor’s attention, the disagreement about lab safety becomes a critical governance issue. With Anthropic vying for a valuation of almost $2 trillion in public markets, it raises the question of whether safety issues are separate from the investment at stake, especially as researchers and lawmakers have publicly questioned the speed of frontier AI development.

The resignation “sent shock waves through Silicon Valley”

The controversy started after Coxon resigned from Anthropic earlier this week. The ex-pre-training researcher from OpenAI and Anthropic claimed that neither firm was “acting responsibly” and blamed them for competing to achieve self-improving superintelligence.

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