Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI "will be a public company in 2027", or sooner if "our business continues to inflect" (CNBC)
OpenAI’s CFO reportedly told employees the company expects to go public in 2027, signaling concrete IPO timing for a frontier lab.
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<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/open-ai-ipo-timing-2027-friar.html">Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect”</a></b></span> — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees during an all-hands meeting on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence lab … </p>
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