OpenAI CFO Targets Public Offering by 2027 or Earlier
OpenAI's CFO told employees an IPO is coming by 2027 at the latest, urging staff not to sweat Anthropic's rival timeline.
OpenAI is heading to Wall Street, and the clock is ticking. CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands meeting that the AI giant will be a public company by 2027 — or possibly sooner. That's a firm, calendar-stamped commitment from the person who controls the books.
Friar also told staff to stop worrying about Anthropic's IPO timeline. That's a revealing signal. When your CFO has to call out a competitor by name at an internal meeting, it means the chatter was loud enough to notice. OpenAI is clearly feeling the competitive heat from Anthropic in the race to go public.
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For retail traders, this is the kind of multi-year setup worth tracking now. OpenAI remains private, so you can't buy shares today — but a 2027 IPO window gives you time to watch the pre-IPO secondary market, follow valuation rounds, and position yourself in the AI ecosystem plays that are already public.
The broader read here: the two most powerful private AI labs in America are both eyeing public markets at roughly the same time. That's going to be a defining moment for the AI investment narrative — and a potential flood of institutional and retail money chasing two high-profile debuts in a compressed window.
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