Private AI proxies

The unlisted supermajors

OpenAI at $500B, Anthropic at $380B, xAI merged into SpaceX. Here's how they map to public tickers — the only way most investors can touch them.

OpenAI

OpenAI

Private
$500.0B
Oct 2025 secondary tender

PBC restructure removes profit cap. Leopold was fired from the Superalignment team in April 2024 over a security memo.

Public proxies
  • MSFT~27%
    $135.00B
    IP access through 2032
  • SFTBY$30B invested
    SoftBank led $40B+ primary round at $300B
Anthropic

Anthropic

Private
$380.0B
Feb 2026 Series G + tender

Leopold's fiancée Avital Balwit is Chief of Staff to Dario Amodei. Fund holds a private position.

Public proxies
  • GOOGL~14%
    $53.00B
    No board seats
  • AMZN~7.8%
    $30.00B
    $8B committed, AWS partnership
  • NVDAUp to $10B
    Nov 2025 strategic investment
  • MSFTUp to $5B
    Nov 2025 investment, $30B Azure compute commitment
xAI

xAI

Private
$250.0B
Feb 2026 SpaceX merger

All-stock merger into SpaceX.

Public proxies
  • NVDAStrategic investor
    Series C participant
SSI (Safe Superintelligence)

SSI (Safe Superintelligence)

Private
$32.0B
Apr 2025

Ilya Sutskever's post-OpenAI lab. Situational Awareness essay is dedicated to Sutskever.

Public proxies
  • GOOGLInvestor
    Google Cloud provides TPU infrastructure
  • NVDAInvestor
    Apr 2025 round participant
Mistral AI

Mistral AI

Private
$14.0B
Sep 2025

European AI champion.

Public proxies
  • ASML11%
    $1.50B
    Board seat
  • NVDAInvestor
    Series C, 18,000 Grace Blackwell chips partnership
Figure AI

Figure AI

Private
$39.0B
Sep 2025

Humanoid robotics.

Public proxies
  • MSFTInvestor
    Series B and C participant
  • NVDAInvestor
    Series C participant
  • INTCInvestor
    Via Intel Capital
Anduril

Anduril

Private
$30.5B
Jun 2025

Defense tech. Purely VC-backed — Founders Fund, a16z. No public proxy.

No public proxy — purely VC-backed.
Access vehicles

Closed-end exposure

Non-accredited alternatives
Destiny Tech100
DXYZ
Destiny Tech100
NYSE

SpaceX, Anthropic (new Feb 2026), ~32 companies

~40% premium to $19.97 NAV (Dec 2025)
52-week range $19.71–$50.50. Short interest ~10.7%.
ARK Venture Fund
ARKVX
ARK Venture Fund
Interval Fund

SpaceX (17%), OpenAI (11%), Anthropic (4%), Figure AI (4%), xAI, Replit, Lambda, Shield AI, Groq

No premium/discount (daily NAV)
3.49% expense ratio. Quarterly redemptions capped at 5% of NAV.
SoftBank Group
SFTBY
SoftBank Group
OTC

~$30B in OpenAI. Vision Fund portfolio.

Trades at conglomerate discount historically
Masayoshi Son concentration risk. Heavy OpenAI dependence.
In his words

The Leopold canon

Pulled from 'Situational Awareness' (June 2024), the Dwarkesh Patel interview, and the forourposterity blog.

AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible.

Situational Awareness, June 2024AGI Timeline

Power is the binding constraint, not chips or investment.

Situational AwarenessPower

Imagine 100 million automated Alec Radfords.

Situational AwarenessIntelligence Explosion

We're very much on track for a $1 trillion of total AI investment by 2027.

Dwarkesh Patel podcast, June 2024Capex

In 2027, a leading AI lab will be able to train a GPT-4-level model in a minute.

Situational AwarenessCompute

I'm so bearish on the wrapper companies because they're betting on stagnation... we're just going to sonic boom you.

Dwarkesh Patel podcastWrapper companies

AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible.

Situational Awareness, June 2024AGI Timeline

Power is the binding constraint, not chips or investment.

Situational AwarenessPower

Imagine 100 million automated Alec Radfords.

Situational AwarenessIntelligence Explosion

We're very much on track for a $1 trillion of total AI investment by 2027.

Dwarkesh Patel podcast, June 2024Capex

In 2027, a leading AI lab will be able to train a GPT-4-level model in a minute.

Situational AwarenessCompute

I'm so bearish on the wrapper companies because they're betting on stagnation... we're just going to sonic boom you.

Dwarkesh Patel podcastWrapper companies

The core AGI infrastructure must be controlled by America, not some dictator in the Middle East.

Situational AwarenessNational Security

The nation's leading AI labs treat security as an afterthought. Currently, they're basically handing the key secrets for AGI to the CCP on a silver platter.

Situational AwarenessSecurity

I find it an insane proposition that the US government will let a random SF startup develop superintelligence. Imagine if we had developed atomic bombs by letting Uber just improvise.

Situational AwarenessThe Project

We're going to have way more situational awareness than any of the people who manage money in New York. We're definitely going to do great on investing.

Dwarkesh Patel podcastInvesting

By the early 2030s, the entirety of the US arsenal will probably be obsolete.

Situational AwarenessDefense

Most powerful weapon man has ever created. Think nukes, but 10x.

Situational AwarenessSuperintelligence

The core AGI infrastructure must be controlled by America, not some dictator in the Middle East.

Situational AwarenessNational Security

The nation's leading AI labs treat security as an afterthought. Currently, they're basically handing the key secrets for AGI to the CCP on a silver platter.

Situational AwarenessSecurity

I find it an insane proposition that the US government will let a random SF startup develop superintelligence. Imagine if we had developed atomic bombs by letting Uber just improvise.

Situational AwarenessThe Project

We're going to have way more situational awareness than any of the people who manage money in New York. We're definitely going to do great on investing.

Dwarkesh Patel podcastInvesting

By the early 2030s, the entirety of the US arsenal will probably be obsolete.

Situational AwarenessDefense

Most powerful weapon man has ever created. Think nukes, but 10x.

Situational AwarenessSuperintelligence