Speculating, conditional on the pitchbook data being correct, I don’t think that Moskovitz funded Anthropic because his object level beliefs about their value or because they’re such good pals, rather I’m guessing he received a recommendation from Open Philanthropy, even if Open Philanthropy wasn’t the vehicle he used to transfer the funds.
Also note that Luke Muehlhauser is part of the board of Anthropic; see footnote 4 here.
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Speculating, conditional on the pitchbook data being correct, I don’t think that Moskovitz funded Anthropic because his object level beliefs about their value or because they’re such good pals, rather I’m guessing he received a recommendation from Open Philanthropy, even if Open Philanthropy wasn’t the vehicle he used to transfer the funds.
Also note that Luke Muehlhauser is part of the board of Anthropic; see footnote 4 here.