“Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.”
Said Oct 19, 2026Deadline Dec 31, 2027Elon Musk post on X, October 19, 2026; reported by NBC News, 'Elon Musk and Anthropic make promises to give the public a piece of the AI pie'
Posted a day after Anthropic committed 5% of its equity to a public benefit fund, with Musk arguing shares should go 'directly to the public.' No mechanism, age cutoff or eligibility rules were specified; reporting notes the shares might be routed through Trump Accounts, and at roughly $146/share and ~70 million US children the pledge would be worth over $10 billion.