Dario Amodei's $18 million pay tops Anthropic IPO filing

Anthropic's filing arrives as the company seeks to become a public company, a step that requires disclosing details previously kept private. The S-1 reveals that sibling co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei are the two most highly-paid executives, with compensation of nearly $18 million and $16.4 million respectively, and that the company considers their continued service critical to its mission.

The filing also details billions of dollars in compute commitments, including roughly $3.1 billion per month to SpaceX for Nvidia GPUs once planned capacity is delivered, as well as multi-year agreements with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. These commitments illustrate the scale of resources Anthropic has locked in to power its AI models, even as it faces increasing opposition to data center development in the US.

Finally, the prospectus outlines a governance structure that will allow Anthropic's seven co-founders to retain considerable control after going public. Through a separate entity called Founder LLC, the group will collectively control 50.1 percent of shareholder voting power over key matters, the filing says. The company describes the founders as "distinctly equipped to be stewards of our mission."