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AI founders pledge to give away hundreds of billions of dollars. How will they be spent?
Silicon Valley grantmakers reshape charity; as donations rise, cost to save a life jumps from $5,000 to $15,000+, forcing nonprofits from cheap to costlier interventions. This AI wealth shift redirects capital toward higher-cost altruism, reshaping how tech leaders measure nonprofit ROI and allocate corporate impact budgets globally.
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From Trump to Sam Altman, the idea is catching on. Does it make sense?

From Donald Trump to Sam Altman, the idea of redistributing them is catching on. Does it make sense?

Its investment lags far behind America’s. Its models do not

Demand for open-weight models is soaring

The result is increasingly unsettling

State-backed efforts to catch up with frontier models are doomed