The co-founder and CEO of OpenAI stated that this is not the right time to consider an entry into the stock exchange, noting that the industry is holding a debate on the security of Artificial Intelligence as technology.
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20/09/2026
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Nthe first semester of the year came to believe that OpenAI could start the process of entering the stock exchange by the end of the year, with co-founder and CEO Sam Altman now indicating that (after all) can stay for 2027.
In an interview with Fortune, Altman notes that the scholarship entry may be postponed to 2027, pointing to the environment that has been felt around Artificial Intelligence as technology – especially with regard to development and security.
However, Altman does not confirm that the scholarship entry will take place in 2027 and prefers only to ensure that this will only happen “when the company is ready”.
“ We have a lot to do. We need to comply with what will be required in terms of security and alignment, find out how industry and governments will work together and how a private company will manage to do that.”, explained Altman.
Remember that last week was marked by statements by leaders of some of the leading Artificial Intelligence companies, in which they defended a more “musculated” regulation. Among them were not only Sam Altman himself, but also Dario Amodei of Anthropic and even the multimillion-dollar tycoon Elon Musk.
Zuckerberg rejects appeals to slow down AI development
Meta's executive director, Mark Zuckerberg, rejected the growing calls to suspend or slow down the development of artificial intelligence (IA), arguing that market mechanisms and risk of lawsuits already function as major brakes for possible abuses.
In a text published on social network X, Zuckerberg stated that “people will not want to use agents that are not aligned with their interests, or that do not do what they are asked to do,” so that programmers have “a strong natural incentive” to make models more faithful to users’ needs.
The concept of “alignment” refers precisely to the effort for systems to behave according to human will.
The founder of Meta stressed that any laboratory that does not focus on this alignment “will stay behind” and recalled that the company postponed for months the launch of Muse AI system, with custom agents, to strengthen security mechanisms. “We did it as part of our daily work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us,” he wrote.
The discussion on AI regulation has intensified in recent weeks, following safety incidents and signs that models begin to evolve without human intervention. Companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google study the creation of a common body to define standards, while figures like Dario Amodei, executive director of Anthropic, advocate a slowdown in the pace of development.
Zuckerberg counterpoints that the threat of legal proceedings already obliges laboratories to act responsibly and that the best practice of industry is independent evaluation of systems.
He added that Meta resorts to external experts and called for the creation of a “widest and more diversified system of evaluators”, in an indirect criticism of Anthropic, accused of favoring peer reviewers close to the company.
The Goal, which this year invested up to $145 billion (EUR 125 billion) in AI infrastructure, has resisted any regulation that might delay its models. Zuckerberg had already argued in August that “no rule should delay the departure of American models, not even for a month.”.
His position was welcomed by several Silicon Valley personalities close to the White House, who contest the warnings about the risks of the AI and reject the calls to halt its development.