The future of Open AI

Altman in internal chat: Open AI will go public within a year

Open AI will go public “within a year”. This is what the AI ​​giant’s CEO Sam Altman wrote in an internal chat thread to the company’s employees, reports The Information.

At the same time, the CEO highlighted that several factors are at play that could cause the listing to happen sooner or later than that.

He pointed to a scenario where so-called recursive self-improvement occurs, where AI systems begin to develop and improve themselves, as a reason to wait with a stock market listing.

Analysis: Sky-high demands when the AI ​​giants go public

The fact that Open AI, SpaceX and Anthropic are going public means that the respective companies’ AI operations will be scrutinized even more harshly, writes CNN’s Lisa Eadicicco in an analysis.

She compares it to the American technology and semiconductor company Broadcom, which plunged by double digits on the stock market last week, despite a report showing “astonishing profits”.

“Wall Street already has sky-high expectations for AI, which means that anything short of exceptionally strong growth risks being seen as a disappointment”, writes Eadicicco.

She notes that “the hard part begins now” for the three corporate giants.

DN’s tech editor Linus Larsson writes that Open AI’s IPO is the nail in the coffin for everything that Sam Altman first said the company would be.

What started as an “ideal AI laboratory” is today an “ordinary, commercial company”.

“The IPO is possibly a confirmation that high ideals and kind-hearted consideration do not fit in Silicon Valley”, writes Larsson.