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OpenAI Delays Its IPO to 2027 After Anthropic Goes Public

OpenAI has postponed its initial public offering to 2027, following rival Anthropic's decision to go public. The delay marks a shift in the competitive landscape between the two AI companies.

Background

- OpenAI (creator of ChatGPT) and Anthropic (creator of Claude) are rival AI startups that have both been privately held. An IPO (initial public offering) is when a company sells shares to the public for the first time — a major liquidity event for investors and employees. - This article claims OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 specifically so that Anthropic can go public first. The implication is that OpenAI wants to see how the market values Anthropic before setting its own valuation, or that it wants to avoid a direct comparison in the same year. - The two companies were founded by overlapping groups of people (Anthropic was started by ex-OpenAI employees), and they compete directly in large language models. Their corporate structures differ: OpenAI has a controversial capped-profit model, while Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation. - Neither company has officially confirmed these IPO timelines; the report appears to come from unnamed sources. The AI IPO race is closely watched because these are among the highest-valued private tech companies in the world.

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