{"id":492106,"date":"2026-06-10T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492106\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:19:16","slug":"us-tech-race-to-go-public-in-full-swing-as-openai-plots-stock-market-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492106\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech race to go public in full swing as OpenAI plots stock market float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is planning to launch its shares on the US stock market, hot on the heels of rival AI giant Anthropic as the industry\u2019s race to go public enters full swing.<\/p>\n<p>The company behind the chatbot ChatGPT announced that it had filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an expected initial public offering (IPO).<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said in a blog post that the filing was \u201cconfidential\u201d but it was choosing to announce it because it expects the news to \u201cleak\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/us-tech-race-to-go-public-in-full-swing-as-openai-plots-stock-market-float.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Altman\" data-title=\"OpenAI Lawsuit\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved\" data-credit=\"Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required.\"\/>Sam Altman is chief executive of OpenAI (Godofredo A Vasquez\/AP)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s a complicated set of tradeoffs and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filing involves submitting a prospectus to register interest in an IPO, which if it went ahead would see the company\u2019s shares launched on the public market.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought that it could be one of the biggest debuts on Wall Street, with OpenAI\u2019s most recent valuation coming in at more than 850 billion US dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The company, headed by chief executive Sam Altman, says it is generating around two billion dollars in revenues each month.<\/p>\n<p>It also recently revealed it was building an \u201cAI superapp\u201d which it said will bring together ChatGPT, its coding tool Codex, and browsing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781079556_496_us-tech-race-to-go-public-in-full-swing-as-openai-plots-stock-market-float.jpg\" alt=\"Anthropic co-founder and president Daniela Amodei speaks to Snowflake chief executive Sridhar Ramaswamy during the keynote presentation at Snowflake Summit 26 in San Francisco\" data-title=\"Anthropic\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved\" data-credit=\"Jeff Chiu\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required.\"\/>Anthropic co-founder and president Daniela Amodei speaks to Snowflake chief executive Sridhar Ramaswamy during the keynote presentation at Snowflake Summit 26 in San Francisco (Jeff Chiu\/AP)<\/p>\n<p>It comes a week after Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, revealed it had also submitted the paperwork to fire the starting gun on a potential listing.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic is valued at nearly 1.0 trillion US dollars following its meteoric rise from a research laboratory founded five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Google\u2019s parent firm Alphabet said it was looking to raise 80 billion US dollars in equity to fund its AI infrastructure investments \u2013 its first stock offering in more than 20 years and one of the largest ever equity raisings.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s rocket and AI company SpaceX is also preparing to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The planned listings increase the pace of activity in the fast-growing industry as firms look to capitalise on the boom in investor demand for AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is planning to launch its shares on the US stock market, hot on the heels of rival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-492106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}