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He told Fortune on September 16 that "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public." That follows $122 billion raised in March at an $852 billion valuation, roughly a 41% markup in six months without touching public markets. An IPO was reported as possible for September as recently as May, and it got pulled within days of Amodei's essay, which makes the safety debate an input to OpenAI's capital structure rather than a side conversation. It also cuts against Gary Marcus's read that Altman's endorsement of pacing was IPO risk management.
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Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" on September 12. Altman and Musk agreed within hours. Hassabis called the direction correct. By Monday morning the market had priced it. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 1.5% and S&P 500 futures 0.8%. Nvidia dropped 3%, AMD 5.7%, and A...
Amodei's leaked memo called OpenAI's Pentagon deal "straight up lies" and "safety theater," described employees as "gullible." Apologized for tone but confirmed Anthropic received a supply chain risk designation and plans to sue. Altman acknowledged the deal looked "opportunis...
In a Fortune interview published September 12, Altman said now would be an "ill-advised moment to go public," that OpenAI won't list until 2027, and that he's "happy to be able to do that as a private company," citing safety and alignment work still ahead. Bloomberg, Axios and...
In an FT op-ed surfaced by Fortune, Altman called for a US-led forum to set AI standards and provide impartial capability and risk analysis. Fortune frames it as OpenAI pivoting to governance-setting as it slips against Google and Anthropic. When you can't win on benchmarks, y...
$800 million in API tokens for ~2% equity across 400 startups. Read that number again. TechCrunch reports Sam Altman made the offer at a closed-door YC event on May 20. Every startup in YC's Spring 2026 batch gets $2 million in OpenAI API tokens via uncapped SAFEs. The total c...
Three separate things happened in about 36 hours, and together they mark the week the pacing debate stopped being a debate among labs. Trump posted on Truth Social that AI safety concerns are a "HOAX" and that the only control or guardrails AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (Hig...
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