Sam Altman 'wants to' give Trump admin 5% stake in OpenAI, and 'tells' Google, Anthropic and other AI companies to...
OpenAI's Sam Altman reportedly proposed giving the US government a 5% stake in the company, alongside similar stakes from other AI giants like Google and Meta.
This initiative aims to ease political tensions and broadly share AI's economic benefits, drawing parallels to Alaska's oil wealth fund.
The move comes amid increasing government scrutiny of AI's impact on jobs and cybersecurity.
OpenAI Offers US Government Stake
- OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake Financial Times —
- OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’ The Guardian —
- OpenAI is offering the Trump administration a 5% stake to seed an AI wealth fund Quartz —
- OpenAI’s proposed ‘Trump stake’ raises ‘governance overhang’ fears ahead of IPO City AM —
- OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund Techcrunch —