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)

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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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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/open-ai-ipo-timing-2027-friar.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260819/i42.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260819/p42#a260819p42" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/">CNBC</a>:<br /> <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 &ldquo;will be a public company in 2027&rdquo;, or sooner if &ldquo;our business continues to inflect&rdquo;</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees during an all-hands meeting on Wednesday that the artificial intelligence lab &hellip; </p>