Goldman, BofA Vie to Manage Anthropic Employees’ IPO Wealth

The notable detail is that Anthropic is soliciting formal proposals on fees and services, rather than simply letting banks court its staff — suggesting the company sees post-IPO wealth management as an institutional relationship to be structured. This matters because it signals where AI-lab equity is heading: from paper windfall to a contested advisory market, with the same bulge-bracket names that underwrite listings competing to keep the assets afterward. Whether other AI firms adopt a similar gatekeeping approach to their employees' liquidity events is the open question.