@rohanpaul_ai: New York Times: OpenAI is now leaning toward a 2027 IPO because the public market is testing whether AI giants deserve …
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OpenAI is reportedly leaning toward a 2027 IPO, while the US government asks the company to slow the release of GPT-5.6 to a controlled preview, highlighting tensions between market expectations and regulatory concerns.
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New York Times: OpenAI is now leaning toward a 2027 IPO because the public market is testing whether AI giants deserve trillion-dollar prices before they prove durable profits.
IMO, SpaceX’s huge IPO and Anthropic’s confidential filing also change the OpenAI story because public-market capital is not infinite, and investors may already be digesting one massive AI-adjacent listing while preparing for another pure AI listing.
OpenAI cannot just ask for $1T in isolation, because every giant IPO competes for the same pool of institutional cash, risk appetite, and patience for loss-making growth stories.
So waiting until 2027 lets OpenAI avoid becoming the third huge test of AI-market depth in the same cycle
nytimes .com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intelligence.html
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): The Information: The US government is asking OpenAI to slow GPT-5.6 into a controlled preview instead of releasing it broadly at once.
OpenAI reportedly plans to give small partner groups early access while officials approve customers one by one, turning a model launch into a
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