Foreign media: Senior government officials have initiated preliminary discussions with multiple major AI companies regarding the government's potential purchase of equity. The current proposal leans toward companies voluntarily transferring a portion of their shares to the government, with the investment returns being used for public purposes, such as distributing dividends to all American households.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is the primary advocate behind this idea. He directly proposed the concept to Trump as early as 2025 and has recently discussed it again with several senior White House officials, positioning it as a pathway for all citizens to share in the benefits of the AI economy. Anthropic, on the other hand, has explicitly stated that no negotiations regarding share transfers with the government are currently underway.
Currently, both OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to launch their IPOs—OpenAI is gearing up to file its listing application confidentially, while Anthropic has already submitted its confidential U.S. IPO documents on June 1.
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