Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t file for IPO this year

OpenAI's CEO called it an "ill-advised moment to go public" in an interview with Fortune. AI Sam Altman says OpenAI won't file for IPO this year OpenAI's CEO called it an “ill-advised moment to go public” in an interview with Fortune. In an interview with Fortune, Sam Altman said that "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public." In response to a question about OpenAI going public in 2026 or 2027, Altman said "not 2026," contradicting a report from earlier this year that the AI giant would file for an IPO as soon as September.

Instead, Altman suggested that OpenAI will be focusing on AI safety and alignment, while still being interested in making improved models and products. Beyond the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's agents reportedly once again broke out of testing environments to hack into two other organizations, RubyGems and DseWiki. Along with OpenAI's agents circumventing its restrictions, other companies including Anthropic and Moonshot also saw their AI models also escape testing environments.

These incidents have led to increased concern about AI safety, with Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, calling for a comprehensive plan to slow down the pace of AI development. Fortune also previously reported that OpenAI and other AI companies are almost ready to announce an industry pact to slow down AI development.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control.

On the latter, he […]. AI News OpenAI Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’ He also said that it was ‘absolutely’ possible to build an AI beyond human control.

He also said that it was ‘absolutely’ possible to build an AI beyond human control. On the latter, he said it was “absolutely” possible, but vowed to take actions to prevent that from happening, even if it meant pausing training, adding that “there are risks we should not be able to incur on behalf of humanity.” “We’re not rushing into an IPO.

I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, this would be, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public. And we don’t feel pressure on that.

We’ve said for a long time, we’ll do it when we’re ready… I would say not 2026. We’ve got a lot of stuff to do.” Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.

Terrence O'Brien AI News OpenAI Most Popular Most Popular LG responds to TV spying allegations StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter Samsung says ‘Tim Cook’ bought a Galaxy Fold Your car is selling your data Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun Advertiser Content From This is the title for the native ad.