Is OpenAI planning an IPO?
Reports indicate OpenAI is exploring a public listing partly to fund its infrastructure burn. Critics describe this as a risk-transfer move — asking public shareholders to bankroll the gap between today's steep losses and AI's promised, but unproven, future utility.
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