OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon
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| wsj.com
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Aboutplants
6 minutes ago
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The summer of Trillion dollar IPO’s is upon us. OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX

Will they eat each others potential capital appetite? Or is there just that much laying around for them all to gobble up the bag?

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skiing_crawling
12 minutes ago
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At this point IPOs are mainly for unloading bags onto retail. Every institution who wanted a piece of these labs got in years ago and captured all the value.
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bensyverson
7 minutes ago
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Let's hope—and I say this with zero sarcasm—that their relationship to Wall Street is cruel indifference.
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brcmthrowaway
10 minutes ago
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Congrats to OpenAI and RIP to the SF housing market
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cdrnsf
39 minutes ago
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Can't wait to see those revenue numbers.
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4lx87
15 minutes ago
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OpenAI reported ~$20 billion annualized revenue for 2025, up from $6 billion the year before.
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cdrnsf
5 minutes ago
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And that covers their model training and infrastructure costs?
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jmye
8 minutes ago
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Agree, deeply interested in their books and then whatever report cadence we end up on next year.

I understand that a lot of people want to cash out, but I'm surprised they're ready to share, especially given I don't think they've had issues bringing in funding in the private markets, but maybe I'm wrong.

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Kye
5 minutes ago
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Say OpenAI IPO 5 times fast
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throw03172019
14 minutes ago
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Are they trying to beat SpaceX as well?
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aurareturn
48 minutes ago
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Throughout the “AI bubble” talk in 2024 and 2025, I consistently argued that we were nowhere near the peak of the AI bubble. So far, that view has held up, as valuations are significantly higher today than they were in 2024 and 2025.

If you look at the way the dotcom bubble unfolded, dotcom didn't take off until after Netscape IPOed in 1995. The market had 5 more years of growth until the collapse. And even after collapse, the Nasdaq was 2x higher post pop than in 1995.

If history repeats itself, the stock market will take off after OpenAI and/or Anthropic IPOs. Be scared when random AI companies IPO with bad ideas and no revenue.

My posts on AI bubble over the years:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40739829

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385830

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035647

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241944

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cess11
21 minutes ago
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Well, I guess that's an effective way to deflect responsibility for the harms they cause from the people actually in control of their software and databases, onto 'shareholders'.
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nodesocket
22 minutes ago
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Smart move IPO'ing ahead of Anthropic. Can take a lot of AI capital being first mover... That is, until Anthropic IPO's which I expect shortly.
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aurareturn
13 minutes ago
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Agreed. They should IPO first if they think Anthropic’s IPO will be bigger. Get as much capital as you can first, then use it to buy more compute and defensively.

The hype will be a lot less if Anthropic IPOs first and beats OpenAI’s numbers.

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astkl
8 minutes ago
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It will probably be a failure, that is why they are rushing it to prevent a greater failure.

Microslop and Oracle are already way down from their highs. Only Nvidia as the shovel seller still performs well.

People generally hate AI. The IPO price will be inflated and the stock will drop 10% on the first day, like many late stage IPOs in the 2000 bubble.

Friends and family like the Kushners will cash out. Trump might even suspend wars around the IPO date.

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rvz
50 minutes ago
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The "I" in "AGI" stands for IPO.

So as we can clearly observe: "AGI" which at this point is (A Giant IPO) is almost here.

Now all of humanity will benefit from this being e̶x̶i̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶q̶u̶i̶d̶i̶t̶y̶ shared by everyone for everyone. Right?

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glitchc
41 minutes ago
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Yup, Sam can claim that AGI is owned by everyone (he really means their pension funds though), while he makes a hasty exit to his private island retreat which we all have paid for.
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dbbk
53 minutes ago
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Good luck with that I guess
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aurareturn
26 minutes ago
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Any early guesses on end of first day market cap?

I'm going to guess $2.5 trillion which is about 2.5x their current valuation. I think the hype is going to be immense.

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