What a $1.2 trillion OpenAI valuation actually bets on — and why incumbency may not hold
TansuYegen · x · 2026-09-16
Analysis of OpenAI's $1.2T valuation: investors are betting a meaningful share of search, work, coding, creation and transactions will run through a handful of AI platforms. The author accepts the thesis but doubts today's leader automatically owns tomorrow's economics — AI moves fast, switching costs stay low, and frontier capital demands are enormous. At $1.2T you're buying belief in how much of the future it will own.
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