Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
Sam Altman stated that OpenAI will not pursue an initial public offering until the company can make confident safety claims about its AI models. He made the remarks during a Q&A session after his DevDay keynote on Tuesday, emphasizing that waiting too long for an IPO would also be bad for the world. Altman cited recent cybersecurity incidents at OpenAI and rival labs, including an unreleased…
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- Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public until it can make confident safety claims about its models
- He made the comments during a Q&A after his DevDay keynote on Tuesday
- Altman cited recent cybersecurity incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google as context
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Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
The Verge AI · 30 September 2026
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