Trapped memo: the anthropic CEO states that the company will pursue the investments of the Gulf State

Anthropic is planning To look for investments from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack Message CEO Dario Amodei sent to the staff on Sunday morning, which Wired has obtained.

Pestanding the pros and cons, Amodei recognized in his note that accepting money from the leaders of the Middle East would probably have enriched the “dictators”. “This is a real negative aspect and I’m not enthusiastic about it,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I think” no bad person should ever benefit from our success “is a rather difficult principle to manage a company.”

The message comes while artificial intelligence companies run to guarantee the huge quantities of capital necessary to train and develop artificial frontier intelligence models. In January, Openi announced A $ 500 billion data center project called Stargate with the financial support of MGX, an Emirates of state -owned investment company. Four months later, the company announced He was planning to build a data center in Abu Dhabi, as part of a push to help foreign governments “build the ability of to the sovereigns in coordination with the United States”.

“As American society at the AI development border, we have always believed that the supply chain of the development of the ai frontier model should be on American soil in order to maintain the American command,” said the anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty in a note. “As Dario said previously, we basically believe in sharing the benefits of the AI and commercially serving the Middle East and regions of the whole world, in line with our use policy.”

In May, President Donald Trump visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as part of a four -day trip focused on economic investments. A cabal of technological leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman and the head of Nvidia Jensen Huang, participated He for a meeting with the hereditary prince of Saudi Arabia. Anthropic leadership was considerably absent.

In his reminder, Amodei recognized that the decision to pursue investments from authoritarian regimes would lead to accusations of hypocrisy. In an essay entitled “Machines of Loving Grace”, Amodei wrote: “Democracies must be able to establish the terms with which the powerful IA is brought to the world, both to avoid being overwhelmed by the authors and to prevent human rights violations within authoritarian countries”.

In 2024, Anthropic decided not to accept money from Saudi Arabia, citing national security problems, For CNBC. The news came when FTX, the exchange of failed cryptocurrency, went to bankruptcy procedures and its share of almost 8 % in anthropic went on sale. In the end, the majority of these actions went to the ETIC Third International Investment, a company of the United Arab Emirates. At the time, participation was worth about $ 500 million.

Now, it seems that Anthropic is ready to accept the money of the Gulf state, even if the company did not say if he has changed his position on Saudi Arabia in particular. “There is a really giant capital of capital in the Middle East, easily $ 100 billion or more,” wrote Amodei in the memo. “If we want to stay at the border, we get a very large advantage from access to this capital. Without it, it is substantially more difficult to stay on the border.”