Sam Altman said in a September 12 Fortune interview that an OpenAI public listing in 2026 would be ill-advised, pushing a potential $1 trillion offering toward 2027 and citing safety and alignment needs plus governance friction with OpenAI's nonprofit-for-profit structure. He suggested leading labs may be close to a pact to slow frontier AI development, while rival Anthropic still plans to go public before year-end at a valuation possibly reaching $2.3 trillion. The divergence between the two leading labs' capital-market paths, and the prospect of a coordinated capability slowdown, are directly relevant to how financial institutions model AI-sector liquidity events, private-market valuations, and timing of any public-market entry by frontier labs.
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