No OpenAI IPO Until the AI Stops Going Rogue, CEO Sam Altman Says
THE SO WHAT
Tying IPO timing to ‘confident safety claims’ makes safety performance an explicit capital markets gating factor for frontier labs. For enterprises depending on these models, treat safety roadmaps and incident transparency as part of vendor due diligence—not just model quality or price.
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