A founder would leave the LLC upon quitting, dying, selling too many shares or being fired. Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust would choose four other board seats; its trustees include former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and national security expert Richard Fontaine.
The governance provisions accompany at least $518 billion in planned cloud, compute and infrastructure spending over a decade. About $413.7 billion, or 80%, is owed regardless of usage, averaging roughly $41 billion a year. Broadcom chip leases, mainly for TPUs, account for the largest single block at $161.2 billion, payable even if the capacity sits idle.