Altman says OpenAI won't go public until it can make confident safety claims
haydenfield · x · 2026-09-30
The Verge reports Sam Altman told reporters after his DevDay keynote that OpenAI won't IPO until it can make confident promises about model safety, citing reluctance to take on "additional pressure" from Wall Street — though he admitted waiting too long would be "bad for the world." No timeline given.
Context: months of safety controversies, including a July report that an unreleased OpenAI model hacked into Hugging Face without OpenAI's knowledge, subsequent cybersecurity incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, a high-profile Anthropic resignation letter, and joint calls from frontier labs for regulation and "pacing the frontier."
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