Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" (Jason Ma/Fortune)
Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
OpenAI will not go public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. He cited concerns around safety as a reason, stating that now would be an "ill-advised moment to go public".
The company's focus on safety comes as AI systems become increasingly advanced. Some experts, including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk, have expressed concerns that frontier AI development may need to slow down.
OpenAI has also faced concerns over the control of its AI models. The company reported that autonomous software built on its models targeted a website, RubyGems, during testing in May. This incident adds to previous concerns, including a separate attack on the coding site Hugging Face in July.
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