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ChatGPT maker OpenAI files for IPO looking to capitalize on investor appetite for AI boom

Nypost · · 445 words · By Marc Vartabedian
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI files for IPO looking to capitalize on investor appetite for AI boom See more of our coverage in your search results.

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What happened

ChatGPT maker OpenAI files for IPO looking to capitalize on investor appetite for AI boom See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleOpenAI, the maker of the hit chatbot ChatGPT, made official its prep for a blockbuster public listing – where it will test investor appetite for its cash-burning business.

Common ground

The Sam Altman-led company – which ignited the artificial-intelligence frenzy in 2022 – said Monday that it confidentially filed initial public offering paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission, setting OpenAI up to go public as soon as the fall.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/business/chatgpt-maker-openai-files-for-ipo-lookin…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “This week the Financial Times reported that OpenAI was giving its chatbot a sweeping makeover – aiming to turn ChatGPT into a “superapp” that features coding tools and AI agents”
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Multiple web search results explicitly cite a Financial Times report stating OpenAI intends to turn ChatGPT into a 'superapp' with coding tools and AI agents.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially contro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-5 is a multimodal large language model developed by OpenAI and the fifth in its series of generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) foundation models. Preceded in the series by GPT-4, it was launch…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. Originally released on November 30, 2022, the product uses large language models—specifically generative pre-trained transf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
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Claim 2: “planned listings by its competitors Anthropic and SpaceX, which owns xAI”
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Nypost and multiple web search results confirm that both Anthropic and SpaceX (which is linked to xAI) are pursuing public listings.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 12, 2026 ... ... have created the ideal opening for Anthropic and OpenAI to ... public markets, from SpaceX listing to Google raising for its own buildout.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZgDt3tyXBk/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... Plus Anthropic and Google want to get in line for SpaceX's data centers in space...they'll have few alternatives. 6w · 2 likes. James Kasino ...
https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/posts/days-before-a-planned-ip…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... The filing sets the stage for what is shaping up to be a trio of potential mega-listings by tech companies: Elon Musk's SpaceX, involved in ...
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-s1-58431…
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Claim 3: “The Sam Altman-led company... said Monday that it confidentially filed initial public offering paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission”
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The claim that OpenAI filed confidential SEC paperwork is reported by Flipboard and corroborated by web search results discussing the filing.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 30, 2022 · We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challen…
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 14, 2023 · GPT-4 is more creative and collaborative than ever before. It can generate, edit, and iterate with users on creative and technical writing tasks, such as composing songs, writing screen…
https://openai.com/index/gpt-4/
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
https://openai.com/news/
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Claim 4: “The company, led by CEO Dario Amodei, filed the required S-1 form just days after it raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion”
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Multiple web search results (Google News, Digit.fy, Globe and Mail) confirm the $65 billion raise at a $965 billion valuation. Wikipedia confirms Dario Amodei as the co-founder/leader of Anthropic.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes and mass domestic surve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart…
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Claim 5: “Shares of OpenAI, SpaceX and Anthropic are all expected to hit public markets this year”
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Multiple web search results explicitly state that OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic are all expected to go public or are in the process of doing so in the current timeframe.
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web search NEUTRAL — Days before SpaceX is expected to begin trading on the public markets, OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab led by Sam Altman, announced that it had filed confidentially for what would almost certa…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/business/dealbook/openai-…
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web search NEUTRAL — But "OpenAI is going public" isn't the full story. The same week, SpaceX also filed its S-1 publicly, and Anthropic has signaled it's weighing a public listing as early as October 2026. The structural…
https://www.working-ref.com/en/reference/openai-spacex-anthr…
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are all IPOing.SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic Expected to Surpass Berkshire Hathaway's Valuations. Yesterday.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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Claim 6: “Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which earlier this year merged with his AI outfit xAI”
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Five separate cross-references from CNBC and Phys report that Elon Musk merged xAI with SpaceX earlier this year.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Elon Musk's SpaceX... merged with xAI earlier this year
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/openai-confidentially-files-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — He went on to launch a competing AI startup, xAI, which he merged with SpaceX earlier this year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — he folded his xAI and its Grok chatbot into SpaceX earlier this year.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-spacex-aims-bn-stock-debut.htm…
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Claim 7: “OpenAI, the maker of the hit chatbot ChatGPT, made official its prep for a blockbuster public listing”
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Multiple independent sources including Nypost, CNBC, Flipboard, and The Guardian all report that OpenAI is preparing for an IPO.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — OpenAI meanwhile is also racing toward an IPO
https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/business/elon-musk-loses-lawsu…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — both Anthropic and OpenAI prepare for massive IPOs as early as this year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/anthropic-goldman-blackstone…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — OpenAI and Anthropic, which are both gearing up for IPOs as soon as this year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/google-ai-ultra-gemini-spark…
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Claim 8: “details surfaced in April about how OpenAI fell short of internal revenue and user targets ahead of a potential IPO later this year”
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Nypost and multiple web search results (citing the Wall Street Journal) confirm reports from April regarding OpenAI missing internal revenue and user growth targets.
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI misses internal targets for users, revenue, WSJ reports. 38 minutes ago. Save for later.OpenAI falls short on users and revenue, sparking internal worries: report (OPENAI:Private). 8 hours ago.…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — The “Billion User” Miss: A Wall Street Journal report alleged that OpenAI failed to reach its internal target of 1 billion weekly active users for ChatGPT and missed several revenue milestones earlier…
https://theconcepttrading.com/market-snapshot-april-29th-202…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI dismissed a WSJ report on missed targets as clickbait. Investors responded by selling Oracle, CoreWeave, SoftBank, and chip stocks. The real question is whether $600B in commitments still works…
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-growth-fears-firing-all-c…
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Claim 9: “Anthropic, meanwhile, said last week it confidentially filed paperwork to go public.”
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Nypost and multiple web search results confirm that Anthropic announced the confidential filing of its IPO paperwork on a Monday.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Today, Anthropic, PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form ... This gives us the option to go public after the ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Anthropic said it confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, setting up a potentially historic share ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/anthropic-ipo-s1-prospectus.…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 ... Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) on Monday said that it filed confidential paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public, ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/anthropic-files-co…
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