OpenAI Files for IPO in Test of Investor Appetite

开放AI提交上市申请,以测试投资者胃口

WSJ What’s News

2026-06-09

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A.M. Edition for June 9. OpenAI has privately filed for an IPO, setting the ChatGPT creator up to potentially listing as soon as this fall. WSJ tech reporter Sam Schechner says the filing comes amid intense competition with rival Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX and who will get the biggest slice of public investor money this year. Plus, the Pentagon targets Alibaba, Baidu and BYD in a new Chinese military blacklist. And from London Tech Week, our conversation with the founder of AI voice company ElevenLabs, Mati Staniszewski. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • OpenAI files to go public and will be a major test of investor confidence that it can meet its computing

  • commitments through 2030. Raising cash from public markets can help it finance those commitments.

  • At the same time, it means that investors are going to get a lot more detail

  • and are going to be able to scrutinize whether its revenue is growing fast enough to make good on those commitments.

  • So this is both a super important way for them to raise capital, but it could be a double-edged sword.

  • Plus, the Pentagon adds Alibaba and EV maker BYD to a list of firms that it says are helping China's military.

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  • It's Tuesday, June 9th.

  • I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal,

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  • OpenAI has confidentially filed IPO paperwork with the SEC,

  • setting up the ChatGPT creator to potentially go public as soon as this fall.

  • The move comes after rivals Anthropic and SpaceX announced plans for mammoth public listings.

  • And while we don't have many specifics,