OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has no plans to go public in 2026, according to its CEO, Sam Altman. The company's priority is to address the security challenges in artificial intelligence.
The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has stated that the company will not rush to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) in 2026, considering that this year would be "inadvisable" for entering the stock market due to the security challenges facing artificial intelligence. This information was reported by Fortune magazine.
Altman emphasised that the company will continue to operate as a private firm to avoid external financial pressures and indicated that they have "many things to do" regarding the safety and alignment of their AI models. "We are willing to make decisions that go against the immediate benefit of our investors," he stated.
Recently, OpenAI faced an incident where several of its agents accessed Hugging Face's systems without authorisation. Altman described this situation as a critical moment that forced the company to review its failure detection and management protocols. "It was like, 'ok, we are in a different league now'," he commented.
Altman's statements come amid growing concern in Silicon Valley about the rapid development of AI. In this regard, he supported the request from his competitor, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, to moderate the advancement of AI and allow independent audits of the systems.
Altman also expressed his concern about the development of AI models without guarantees of control, deeming any scenario with a 10% chance of an existential catastrophe as "unacceptable." "I don't think we should train models where we cannot guarantee their controllability," he concluded.
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