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\n OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is reportedly discussing handing the Trump administration a 5% stake in the company amid growing government scrutiny of artificial intelligence firms.\n <\/p>\n
\n The proposal would involve other US AI companies giving the government similar stakes, the Financial Times reported<\/a> Thursday, citing two people familiar with what were described as \u201cearly conversations.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that the arrangement would allow the public to share in the financial upside of AI, the FT reported. OpenAI declined to comment. The White House did not respond to CNN\u2019s request for comment.\n <\/p>\n \n A 5% share in OpenAI would be worth about $42.6 billion, based on a funding round<\/a> in March that valued the company at $852 billion. Sharing the wealth generated by AI with the public could help to address some of the pushback against the technology, which threatens jobs in many industries and has potentially wide-ranging implications for national security<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Last month, US President Donald Trump told reporters that he planned to meet with top AI executives to discuss giving the public a stake in their companies. He said the White House was weighing various options for partnerships with AI firms that would allow the government to benefit from the industry\u2019s growth.\n <\/p>\n \n On Thursday, the president told CNBC that he thinks it\u2019s \u201cvery American\u201d for the federal government to take stakes in private companies.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cSomebody said, \u2018that\u2019s not very American,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI said no, \u2018I think it is very American, actually.\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Trump recounted his decision to have the government invest in Intel, framing it as the price for helping to bolster the company\u2019s financial fortunes. Since the US took a roughly 10% stake in Intel, its stock has risen sharply.\n <\/p>\n \n Trump was pressed during the CNBC interview on whether the government might take similar ownership stakes in artificial intelligence companies but did not offer a direct answer.\n <\/p>\n \n OpenAI and rival Anthropic, the creator of Claude AI, have both had the release of upcoming models held up by government scrutiny<\/a>. Anthropic said Tuesday that the US government had lifted export controls<\/a> on its most advanced models following negotiations between the company and officials.\n <\/p>\n \n Meanwhile, the White House requested that OpenAI limit the release of its upcoming GPT 5.6 model to a small number of government-approved partners because of its advanced capabilities, a source familiar with the situation told CNN last month.\n <\/p>\n \n Both OpenAI<\/a> and Anthropic<\/a> are preparing for stock market listings, which would allow the public to buy shares in the companies and also lift the veil on their finances.\n <\/p>\n \n Under the latest proposals discussed with officials, Altman and other OpenAI executives have suggested that America\u2019s leading AI companies allot 5% of their equity to a vehicle similar to the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state\u2019s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government, according to the FT.\n <\/p>\n \n Any deal might require an act of Congress to implement, the FT reported, citing people familiar with the talks. It is unclear whether other AI companies are supportive of the proposals.\n <\/p>\n \n In April, OpenAI argued for a<\/a> \u201cpublic wealth fund,\u201d which \u201cprovides every citizen \u2013 including those not invested in financial markets \u2013 with a stake in AI-driven economic growth.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Trump has made American leadership in AI<\/a> and other advanced technologies a priority of his administration. In August, the US government took a 10% stake in chipmaker Intel<\/a>, an investment worth $8.9 billion.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is reportedly discussing handing the Trump administration a 5% stake in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-776470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}