Employees at the world’s five leading AI companies just handed Democrats more than a million dollars in a single quarter — while conservatives got pennies.
Workers at Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and xAI donated a combined $2.02 million to Democrats and only $274,000 to Republicans in the second quarter of 2026, according to Federal Election Commission records covering April 1 through June 30.
OpenAI employees gave the most lopsided split of all.
OpenAI staff donated 100% of their roughly $71,000 in individual contributions and roughly $225,000 in political action committee contributions to Democrat-based groups in Q2 of 2026, giving nothing to Republican groups, according to their FEC filings.
Two hundred thousand dollars of that was a single donation to DreamNYC, which supported Democratic New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores — a prominent advocate of AI regulation — in his failed 2026 House run, according to the SuperPAC’s website.
OpenAI employees gave 100% to Democrats. Not a single dollar went to Republicans in Q2 2026.
The pattern holds across Big Tech’s AI divisions.
Google staff gave 72.4% of its total of over $608,000 in contributions to Democrats and only 1.8% to Republicans, according to FEC records. Meta staff similarly donated more than 65% of its $245,000 total to Democrats, but gave a significant 22% to Republicans.
It could not be determined whether the Google and Meta contributions came specifically from employees in those companies’ AI divisions.
In 2025, OpenAI’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife donated a combined $25 million to pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc, the New York Times reported — a stark contrast to the rest of the company’s staff.
Anthropic offered up the most to both parties in absolute terms, with 68.8% of the staff’s roughly $1,616,000 in donations going to Democrats and 12.9% sent to Republicans, FEC records showed. The company’s gifts to Republicans were roughly 19 times more than Google’s, and about 4 times more than Meta’s.
Scoop: AnthroPAC, @AnthropicAI‘s employee-funded political action committee, brought in more than $275k in Q2 — more than similar PACs from tech giants like Google and Amazon have raised in recent quarters. Contributions were 55/45 split R to D. pic.twitter.com/hTbUlKm6Hf
— Jacob Wendler (@jacob_wendler) July 14, 2026
Anthropic researcher Daniel Ziegler gave $500,000 to DreamNYC, according to FEC records. His single contribution accounts for roughly 31% of all Anthropic employee giving in the quarter.
Employees of Grok parent company xAI only donated $1,641 total in contributions in Q2 of 2026, with $1,041 going to Democrats and a single $600 gift to a Republican.
Grok is the most politically neutral and objectively truth-seeking AI https://t.co/g8t0dWXIgj
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2026
Elon Musk claimed in a post on X that Grok is “the most politically neutral and objectively truth-seeking AI.” Musk referenced the findings of a study from The Neutrality Project that asked AI models political survey questions and ranked Grok 4.5 the most neutral with a -0.02 score.
Models from other major AI companies ranked further left; OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna scored -0.46, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 scored -0.48, Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B scored -0.55 and Google’s Gemma 3 27B scored -0.56, according to the study.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
