许多人曾告诉达里奥·阿莫代伊和丹妮拉·阿莫代伊，与七位联合创始人共同创办Anthropic是个糟糕的主意。然而，五年多过去了，这对兄妹表示，这种架构对他们的成功至关重要。兄妹俩是在播客节目《The Builders》的一期节目中发表上述言论的，该期节目于周二发布，录制于7月。
Many people told Dario and Daniela Amodei that starting Anthropic with seven cofounders was a terrible idea. Yet, more than five years later, the duo said that setup is crucial to their success. The siblings made the comments in an episode of the podcast The Builders, released on Tuesday and recorded in July.
“他们都在公司持有同等股份，且都肩负着共同的愿景。我们对他们所有人都有与生俱来的信任，”首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊表示。他在节目后段补充道，相互信任对于解决他与其他联合创始人在高风险问题上的频繁分歧至关重要，例如给模型施加何种防护措施，以及如何为监管进行游说。“这些都是善意的分歧，但它们总能得到解决，因为大家始终相信，每个人都在努力寻找正确的答案，每个人都在诚实相待，”他说，并将此与他此前在OpenAI的工作经历形成对比。
"They all have equal stakes in the company, and they all carry the vision. We have inherent trust in all of them," Dario Amodei, the CEO, said. He said later in the episode that mutual trust is crucial to resolving his frequent disagreements with other cofounders on high-stakes questions, like what safeguards to apply to a model and how to lobby for regulations. "These are all good-faith disagreements, but they always get resolved because there's always trust that everyone is trying to get to the right answer and everyone is being honest," he said, drawing a contrast to what he said was his previous experience working at OpenAI.
Anthropic总裁丹妮拉·阿莫代伊表示，对诚实的重视也延伸到了领导层与员工的沟通方式上。“诚实、正直，以及我们如何对待彼此和员工，也反映了我们希望如何构建这项技术，”她说。
Daniela Amodei, Anthropic's president, said the focus on honesty also extends to how the leaders communicate with employees. "Honesty and integrity and how we treat each other and our employees is also reflective of how we want the technology to be built," she said.
该播客发布的前一天，Anthropic刚刚发布了其S-1招股说明书，准备上市。正如亨利·尚东内特为《商业内幕》所撰，该文件充斥着关于诚实是公司公众形象核心的表述。
The podcast was released one day after Anthropic released its S-1 paperwork as it prepares to go public. As Henry Chandonnet wrote for Business Insider, the paperwork was chock full of language about honesty being central to the company's public persona.
根据S-1文件披露的独特治理结构，公司的七位创始人将控制所有股东投票权的50.1%，这意味着这七位联合创始人的投票权将超过所有其他股东的总和。除了投票权，联合创始人们还持有公司的大量股份，有望赚取数十亿美元。每位联合创始人都承诺将个人持有的公司股权的80%捐赠给慈善事业。
Under a unique governance structure, as outlined in the S-1, the company's seven founders will control 50.1% of all shareholder votes, meaning the seven cofounders will have more voting power than all other shareholders combined. In addition to their voting power, the cofounders also hold significant stakes in the company and stand to earn billions. Each of the cofounders has pledged to donate 80% of their personal equity in the company to philanthropy.
Anthropic备受期待的S-1文件还披露了关键财务数据：该公司去年净亏损420亿美元，营收46亿美元；去年前九个月，五家客户贡献了约四分之一的营收；阿莫代伊兄弟去年的总薪酬方案价值约3500万美元。这份长达90多页的S-1文件列出了风险因素，Anthropic警告称，一起“灾难性的AI相关事件”可能令整个保险行业不堪重负。这家AI巨头预计将于11月在纳斯达克上市，目标估值在1.5万亿至2万亿美元之间，有望成为史上规模最大的IPO。一些投资专家担心，市场可能难以消化又一场重磅IPO。
Anthropic's highly anticipated S-1 paperwork also revealed key financial statistics: The company had a net loss of $42 billion and revenue of $4.6 billion last year, five customers drove around a quarter of revenue in the first nine months of the year, and the Amodeis together had total compensation packages valued at around $35 million last year. More than 90 pages of the S-1 outline risk factors, and Anthropic warned that a "catastrophic AI-related incident" could overwhelm the entire insurance industry. The AI behemoth is expected to target a $1.5 to $2 trillion valuation when it debuts on the Nasdaq in November, potentially making it the largest IPO ever. Some investing experts have expressed concern that the market may struggle to absorb another blockbuster IPO.