en.Wedoany.com Reported - During the G7 summit, AI industry leaders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis met with Trump and other world leaders to promote the establishment of a US-led alliance to coordinate AI rules, chips, model access, and security risks.
In recent years, AI companies have been calling on Washington to establish industry rules. Now, Washington may further demand equity in these companies. According to Semafor, before the recent dispute with Anthropic over export controls, senior Trump administration officials discussed the possibility of government equity investment in major AI companies. One proposal involved funding a "Trump account" with AI equity, while another involved injecting equity into a sovereign wealth fund.
Reportedly, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent favors using AI equity to fund the "Trump account." Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick prefers the sovereign wealth fund structure. Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill aimed at giving US citizens direct ownership of equity in the country's largest AI companies. No decisions have been made yet.
These discussions took place before the US government forced Anthropic to restrict access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The relationship between Washington and the AI industry is shifting from mere regulation to seeking control levers over the industry. Export controls determine who can use models, standards alliances decide whose rules apply globally, and the equity issue raises a deeper question: if AI is considered a national strategic asset, should the public benefit from it?
Reports indicate that Microsoft and Meta have little interest in the idea of government ownership. Semafor notes that aside from OpenAI, which previously proposed a similar plan, this initiative remains difficult to implement. Frontier AI is increasingly being viewed as strategic infrastructure rather than mere software. Governments seek security, leverage, and economic returns, while labs pursue global markets, talent, and freedom of action.
User needs are more straightforward: they want their existing work built on AI tools to continue functioning normally. The recent Fable model incident has made this concern particularly real. This incident also highlights the importance of unaffected open-source AI development, allowing users to access open-source research and run models on their own servers.
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