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When AI giants go public, will ordinary investors know if they are along for the ride?

The Conversation · · 909 words · By Sara Ali
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The article discusses the potential for major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to go public and how this may lead to ordinary investors owning shares through index-tracking pension funds. It raises concerns regarding the risk distribution between early insiders and passive investors, as well as the role of index providers in accelerating the inclusion of these companies.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://theconversation.com/when-ai-giants-go-public-will-ordinary-investors-kno…

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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for a public listing that could value the ChatGPT maker at hundreds of billions of dollars.”
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Multiple web search results (LinkedIn, EconoTimes) mention OpenAI laying the groundwork for an IPO that could value it at up to $1 trillion, aligning with the 'hundreds of billions' claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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web search NEUTRAL — Cast your votes and witness the simulated consequences of your decisions as we reimagine AI governance and democratize the trajectory of technological evolution.
https://www.open-openai.com/app
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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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“Rivals including Anthropic (Claude) and Elon Musk’s SpaceX – which just absorbed xAI (Grok) – are also moving toward the stock market.”
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While evidence confirms Anthropic and SpaceX are AI/tech players, there is no specific evidence in the provided results stating that SpaceX 'absorbed xAI' or that they are currently moving toward a public listing.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on AI safety. [7] .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 4, 2026 · Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.
https://claude.com/product/overview
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“OpenAI plans to spend around US$50 billion on computing power in 2026 alone.”
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Two independent web search results explicitly state that OpenAI President Greg Brockman revealed a projected $50 billion compute spend for 2026 during a trial on May 5, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on AI safety. Anthr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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“In 2017, that same company spent roughly US$30 million”
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One source (OpenAI Plans To Spend $50 Billion...) claims OpenAI spent 'about $30 million' on computing in 2017, while the official Wikipedia entry for OpenAI states it spent '$7.9 million' on cloud computing alone in 2017.
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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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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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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“OpenAI is targeting roughly US$600 billion in compute spending – or that in areas such as processing power, data storage and cloud infrastructure – through to 2030.”
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Three independent web sources (LinkedIn, EconoTimes, and another search result) all report that OpenAI is targeting approximately $600 billion in total compute spend through 2030.
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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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI o1 is a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), the first in OpenAI's "o" series of reasoning models. A preview of o1 was released by OpenAI on September 12, 2024. o1 spends time "thinking" b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_o1
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“The big technology companies are collectively expected to invest around US$650 billion in AI infrastructure in 2026.”
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Two independent sources (LinkedIn and a separate article on AI giants going public) explicitly state that big tech companies are expected to invest around US$650 billion in AI infrastructure in 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running inference for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
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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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“In 2025, total investment in AI companies reached US$217 billion.”
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The claim states total investment in AI companies in 2025 was $217 billion. However, the search result 'The Cities With The Most Billionaires 2025' clarifies that $217 billion is the total net worth of San Francisco's 58 billionaires, not AI investment.
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web search NEUTRAL — In June 2025, Meta Platforms Inc. has decided to make a multibillion-dollar investment into artificial intelligence startup Scale AI. The financing could exceed $10 billion in value which would make i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms
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web search NEUTRAL — Private investment in generative AI reached $33.9 billion in 2024, up 18.7% from 2023 and over 8.5 times higher than 2022 levels. The sector now represents more than 20% of all AI-related private inve…
https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo…
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web search NEUTRAL — San Francisco’s 58 billionaires are worth $217 billion, or $3.7 billion on average.The major OpenAI competitor is valued at $61.5 billion. The other two newcomers are Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang ($…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gennacontino/2025/04/02/the-cit…
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“Then, in just the first three months of 2026, private AI companies raised a further US$226 billion”
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Only one source ('When AI giants go public...') mentions that private AI companies raised US$226 billion in the first three months of 2026. Other sources do not corroborate this specific figure.
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web search NEUTRAL — Then, in just the first three months of 2026, private AI companies raised a further US$226 billion, surpassing the entire 2025 total in a single quarter. Much of this was concentrated in three transac…
https://theconversation.com/when-ai-giants-go-public-will-or…
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web search NEUTRAL — 13 AI stories you need to know today: Google I/O 2026 in 48 hrs, Anthropic $900B round, Meta Avocado silent, GPT-5.5 Instant default, and more.
https://www.buildfastwithai.com/blogs/ai-news-today-may-18-2…
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web search NEUTRAL — Microsoft spent $31.9 billion in the first three months of the year, up 49 percent from a year earlier. It said spending was likely to pick up in the current quarter to more than $40 billion, with tot…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/technology/ai-spending-te…
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“Much of this was concentrated in three transactions: US$122 billion for OpenAI, US$30 billion for Anthropic and US$7.5 billion for xAI.”
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The specific breakdown of $122B for OpenAI, $30B for Anthropic, and $7.5B for xAI is mentioned only in one source ('When AI giants go public...').
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“Together, these three deals alone accounted for 71% of all AI funding that quarter.”
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The claim that these three deals accounted for 71% of funding is only mentioned in the same single source as claim 8.
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“Mega-rounds above US$100 million now make up 94% of all AI investment by value.”
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“Nasdaq has already adopted a fast-track rule that allows a newly listed mega-cap company to join the Nasdaq-100 after just 15 trading days.”
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“S&P Dow Jones Indices is consulting on similar changes that would reduce the waiting period and waive profitability requirements for mega-caps.”
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“OpenAI’s 2023 board crisis showed how unusual governance structures can create sudden instability.”
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