OpenAI confidentially files for IPO, prepping Wall Street for mega AI debut

Cnbc · Jun 08, 2026 · 744 words · By Ashley Capoot; Kate Rooney

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OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission, joining the party a week after Anthropic did the same and days before Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to hit the public market.

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What happened

Why it matters

The artificial intelligence company, which is valued at more than $850 billion, has been gearing up to go public as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.

Common ground

A confidential filing allows the company to submit its financials to regulators for review before they're made available to the public and prospective investors.

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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.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 22 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “OpenAI has raised more than $180 billion in funding”

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Claim 2: “the company [Anthropic] closed a funding round at a $965 billion valuation”

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Claim 3: “Musk... first filed suit in 2024 against OpenAI and Altman”

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Claim 4: “The federal judge immediately adopted the jury's verdict”

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Claim 5: “An advisory jury said that Musk... waited too long to bring claims that they went back on their vow to keep the company a nonprofit”

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Claim 6: “OpenAI's latest valuation... was $852 billion post-money”

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Multiple CNBC reports specifically cite a post-money valuation of $852 billion following a $122 billion raise.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sora was a text-to-video model and social media app developed by OpenAI. Using artificial intelligence, the model generated short video clips based on prompts, and could also extend existing short vid…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_(text-to-video_model)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…

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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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Claim 7: “The company has been working with banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on the filing”

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Multiple sources, including CNBC and WSJ, confirm OpenAI is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on its IPO filing.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jared John Birchall (born 1974) is an American business executive and a former banker. He is the chief executive officer of neurotechnology company Neuralink and the wealth manager of businessman Elon…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Birchall

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI bubble is a theorised stock market bubble growing since 2025 amid the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that is affecting the broader economy. Sp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble

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Claim 8: “Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to hit the public market”

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Multiple independent news sources (CNBC, Deutsche Welle, Flipboard) report that SpaceX is preparing to go public.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX prepares to go public in a $75 billion
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/median-pay-for-ceos-rose-ne…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — The company, which has stayed fiercely private for 24 years, is now preparing to go public.
https://www.dw.com/en/spacex-ipo-the-worlds-richest-man-eyes…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — The company, which has stayed fiercely private for 24 years, is now preparing to go public.
https://www.dw.com/en/will-spacexs-ipo-fund-life-on-mars-and…

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Claim 9: “OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC in April that it's 'good hygiene' for a business of OpenAI's size to 'look and feel and act' like a public company”

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While Sarah Friar is mentioned in web results as CFO, the specific quote about 'good hygiene' and acting like a public company in April is not present in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of notable former employees of McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm founded in 1926. This group is often referred to as a group in its own right. According to the c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. is an American company that operates a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. Nextdo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextdoor

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Claim 10: “Anthropic did the same [filed for an IPO] a week after”

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Web search results explicitly state that Anthropic filed for an IPO on June 1st, and that OpenAI's filing followed shortly after (or that Anthropic 'beat' OpenAI to the filing).

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web search NEUTRAL — This week's story: what Anthropic's IPO filing says about whether a safety mission survives public markets. On June 1st, Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC. The filing came days af…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anthropic-confidentially-file…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic has confidentially filed documents to conduct an IPO. The public listing could take place as soon as this fall.It adds that by filing for an IPO Anthropic has beaten its main competitor — Op…
https://en.ain.ua/2026/06/02/anthropic-filed-a-confidential-…

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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, the company announced Monday, joining its rival Anthropic in a race to Wall Street as AI moves from private markets to public scrutiny. …
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-confidentially-files-for…

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Claim 11: “OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission”

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Multiple web search results confirm that OpenAI announced it had confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC.

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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 — OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. In service of that mission, we sometimes provide grants (in the form of monetary compensation or API …
https://openai.smapply.org/

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web search 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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Claim 12: “OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are all named as some of SpaceX's 'key competitors' in AI, according to the filing”

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Claim 13: “OpenAI rocketed into the mainstream following the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022”

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Multiple sources (Al Jazeera, CNBC) confirm the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/5/28/cnn-sues-perplex…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in late 2022
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — OpenAI kick-started the AI boom with the launch of its chatbot ChatGPT in 2022
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/open-ai-altman-congress-trum…

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Claim 14: “ChatGPT now supports more than 900 million weekly active users”

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The specific figure of 900 million weekly active users is only mentioned in one source (Nypost). Other sources do not provide a user count.

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web search 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 trans…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT

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web search NEUTRAL — Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.
https://chatgpt.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Download the ChatGPT app for Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android. Access ChatGPT Work and Codex, use voice conversations, create images, and connect your files and apps.
https://chatgpt.com/download/

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Claim 15: “OpenAI... was valued at $852 billion in late March”

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Claim 16: “The artificial intelligence company [OpenAI], which is valued at more than $850 billion”

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Multiple cross-references from CNBC consistently state that OpenAI's valuation is over $850 billion.

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Claim 17: “A week ago Anthropic announced its confidential IPO filing”

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Claim 18: “They're the two firms listed at the top of SpaceX's filing”

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Web search results confirm that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are the lead banks for SpaceX's IPO.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bret Johnsen (born 1969) is an American billionaire business executive who has served as the chief financial officer of SpaceX since 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Johnsen

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Claim 19: “SpaceX kicked off a roadshow last week”

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Claim 20: “Elon Musk's SpaceX... merged with xAI earlier this year”

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Claim 21: “Altman wrote in a post on X in April that, 'feels like codex is having a chatgpt moment.'”

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Claim 22: “shuttering fringe projects like the company's short-form video app Sora”

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