Altman Sees OpenAI Going Public Within the Next Year:Information

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a Slack message Monday he expects OpenAI to go public “within the next year,” the Information reports.

• Altman said in the message “many things could cause it to be sooner or later in that range, but filing now gives us optionality if we want to go sooner,” according to the Information
  • Altman sent the message around the same time OpenAI said in a blog post it had confidentially filed for an IPO
• Separately, OpenAI is also preparing to release a new AI model, codenamed 5.6, report says, citing OpenAI’s chief scientist
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