Anthropic said Sunday it plans to dedicate 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund while expanding its use of AI-generated software through a new code management system. The company said the equity commitment could grow alongside its valuation. Separately, it reported that daily code changes climbed from 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 by September.
The fund aims to address economic and social effects of artificial intelligence, including pressure on workers. At the same time, Anthropic said its Scion system has replaced Git behind its main shared codebase after AI coding agents increased demand on its development tools.
Under the proposed arrangement, Anthropic would place 5% of its shares into the fund. Its board could add another 2% of shares whenever the company's value rises 50% above a set baseline, subject to the framework's terms.
Anthropic has not yet disclosed the baseline or the milestones governing future increases. The company said the arrangement would assign a greater share of potential growth to public benefit instead of increasing executive compensation.
The company cited the risk that AI could generate substantial economic value while disrupting jobs. It has already committed USD 200 million to research and efforts addressing labor market changes, but said the pace of progress may require broader measures.
The new fund will not use Anthropic shares in its holdings for lobbying or political donations in any country. Anthropic plans to share more information about the structure and oversight of the fund in the coming months.
Anthropic said its founders and employees had made equity donation commitments before the latest proposal. At the company's founding, its co-founders pledged to donate 80% of their personal equity stakes.
The company also runs an equity donation matching program for employees. Around half of its total workforce has taken part, according to Anthropic. Together with the proposed fund, these arrangements cover roughly 20% of company shares for public benefit.
That share could increase if Anthropic reaches the valuation milestones that permit further allocations. The company also intends to publish a public benefit report describing progress toward its mission, while providing more details on fund governance.
Meanwhile, its existing public benefit efforts will continue inside the business. They include AI safety research, work on understanding model behavior, applied biomedical research, and discounted Claude services for nonprofit organizations and scientific institutions.
Separately, Anthropic said Claude helped produce software changes so quickly that reviewing and combining them became harder than writing code. Daily changes rose more than twelvefold between May and September, leading it to replace the system supporting its main shared codebase.
Seven engineers built Scion, its companion review tool Antique, and related systems in five months. Claude generated much of the code, while the engineers made decisions about design, compatibility, and technical limits.
Anthropic Chief Technology Officer Rahul Patil said the engineers directed the design and rejected approaches that breached essential constraints. Scion now tracks changes and helps teams bring contributions together for testing and review.
Why did faster AI-assisted coding create a new bottleneck? Anthropic said automated tasks still needed to retrieve files, inspect revisions, run tests, and combine contributions as demand on its infrastructure expanded.
Its testing systems retrieve code about 25 million times daily. Previously, Anthropic maintained several hundred internal Git repository copies to handle that demand, creating extra work to synchronize and operate them.
Scion moves more processing to central servers and allows tools to request specific files or details. Anthropic said retrieval now takes seconds instead of minutes, while the new setup uses one two hundredth of the CPU and memory needed by its earlier Git mirroring infrastructure.
Anthropic's proposed fund would reserve 5% of company shares for public benefit, with possible increases tied to valuation milestones. Together with earlier founder and employee pledges, the total reaches roughly 20%. Separately, Scion has replaced Git behind Anthropic's main shared codebase as Claude-assisted software development expands.