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OpenAI Floats Handing the US Government a 5% Stake
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Summary
- OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a roughly 5% stake — worth about $42.6 billion at its recent $852 billion valuation — the Financial Times reported.
- CEO Sam Altman argues a public financial interest is the best way to share AI's upside, envisioning a sovereign-wealth-fund vehicle akin to the Alaska Permanent Fund.
- The pitch imagines other AI firms — Anthropic, Google, Meta — ceding similar stakes, though any deal could require an act of Congress.
- It's unclear whether the companies or the Trump administration would agree; Anthropic said it hasn't discussed a government stake.
The question
The US government should take an equity stake in leading AI companies.
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