Overview

• Leaked Slack messages from July 22 reveal CEO Dario Amodei announced Anthropic will reverse its 2024 Saudi funding refusal by seeking investments from the UAE and Qatar.
• Amodei admitted that accepting Gulf capital would likely enrich dictators; he argued that avoiding such funds would undermine the company’s ability to stay at the AI frontier.
• The company plans to negotiate narrowly scoped, purely financial deals to restrict any investor leverage over technology development.
• Amodei estimated that the Middle East holds over $100 billion in capital, which he deems essential to finance large-scale AI training and model development.
• A spokesperson reiterated that Anthropic will keep its core AI infrastructure on US soil; it plans to engage Gulf partners commercially under its existing Usage Policy.