According to reports, the artificial intelligence company OpenAI is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of 2026, which could value the world's largest startup at one trillion dollars.
According to a Reuters report on Thursday, three anonymous sources familiar with the matter said that the AI company is preparing to launch its IPO with a valuation of one trillion dollars, which includes a capital raise of 60 billion dollars.
The application may be submitted to U.S. securities regulators in the second half of 2026, allowing OpenAI to potentially enter the public market before its previously announced target of 2027.
However, a spokesperson for OpenAI told Reuters that the specific date for the IPO has not been determined, as the company's main focus remains on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). "We are building a lasting business and advancing our mission so that everyone can benefit from AGI," they said.
The potential scale of the offering indicates growing institutional interest in AI development, particularly for OpenAI, which became the world's largest startup after reaching a valuation of 500 billion dollars during a secondary stock sale on October 2.
During the stock sale, OpenAI employees sold a total of 6.6 billion dollars in stock to large corporate investors. This round of financing pushed OpenAI's 500 billion dollar valuation above Elon Musk's SpaceX startup valuation of 400 billion dollars.
Despite the increasing budget, OpenAI's flagship product ChatGPT has recently underperformed in a niche area: autonomous cryptocurrency trading.
In an autonomous cryptocurrency trading competition, China's AI chatbots DeepSeek and Qwen3 Max briefly surpassed ChatGPT and Grok.
As of October 22, DeepSeek was the only AI model to generate positive trading returns, approximately 9%, while ChatGPT-5 fell to last place after a 66% loss.
This outcome is surprising, as DeepSeek's total development cost was 5.3 million dollars, a small fraction of the 5.7 billion dollars OpenAI spent on research and development plans in the first half of 2025.
However, according to Nicolai Sondergaard, a research analyst at the crypto intelligence platform Nansen, the right prompts and improved training data could enhance the trading performance of some of these AI models, particularly for ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.
"Assuming all models receive the same trading prompts and instructions, the differences can be attributed to the training data each model has received," he told Cointelegraph.
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