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BY Mark Sullivan

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Anthropic’s cofounders, including CEO Dario Amodei, left OpenAI because they believed AI safety features should be developed alongside model capabilities from the very start of the development process. This mission has shaped the company, and has carried through to the way it’s framing its IPO, which could happen before Thanksgiving.

In its S-1 filing, Anthropic tells the story of a company that wants to benefit all of the world’s people, but can do so only if it goes big and leads the market. That smacks of effective altruism, a twenty-first-century philosophical approach that’s caught on with young Silicon Valley founders. Several Anthropic researchers told Wired in June that it’s important Anthropic stay in the lead among frontier artificial intelligence labs so that mass market AI will be built safely.…