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OpenAI confidentially files for IPO as AI giants race toward public markets
OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC, giving it the option to go public as soon as later this year while also preparing a tender offer to provide employee liquidity at an $852 billion valuation. The filing comes shortly after Anthropic's confidential IPO filing and just before SpaceX's expected public debut, setting up what could be three of the largest IPOs ever. OpenAI's public-market case will likely center on ChatGPT's 900 million weekly users, enterprise and coding products like Codex, and its ability to fund massive compute needs while proving disciplined growth and monetization.
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