""Am I excited to be a public company CEO?" he said. "Zero percent." "Am I excited for OpenAI to be a public company?" he added. "In some ways, I am, and in some ways I think it'd be really annoying.""
""I don't know," he said cryptically. "We will be very late to go public.""
""I think that it's good to be paranoid and act quickly when a potential competitive threat emerges," Altman told Kantrowitz. "My guess is we'll be doing these once maybe twice a year for a long tim"
Several major AI and space companies are preparing potential initial public offerings targeting valuations exceeding $100 billion. OpenAI has faced rumors of a valuation as high as $1 trillion, even as the AI sector struggles to persuade investors of long-term value. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman downplayed enthusiasm for serving as a public-company CEO and said the company would likely be late to go public. Competition and investor skepticism have prompted internal urgency, including a "code red" to focus on improving ChatGPT, with recurring rapid-response efforts expected.
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