[pu_pe]

> The proposed arrangement would involve other US AI companies handing over a similar stake, although it is not clear if the other labs would be willing to do so.

They will be willing to do so if the government threatens to block their models, which they have already done.

I wonder to which extent this has always been how things worked and it was just hidden from the general public, and how much of it is a new level of corruption.

[achow]

> Altman and other OpenAI executives have suggested that each of America’s leading AI developers allot 5 per cent of their equity to a vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state’s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents.

Sounds like it is for benefit of public rather than govt' office, and this would continue to benefit public even after current US administration is out of picture.