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OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor Says No New Update on Company's IPO Plans

July 16, 2026 at 17:31 EDT

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OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor said the company has no new update on its plans to go public, offering little fresh detail during a CNBC interview on July 16, 2026, and effectively confirming that its previously disclosed IPO process remains unchanged.

July 16, 2026 · OpenAI

"We Have No Update on IPO Plans"

Chairman Bret Taylor offered no timeline, valuation target, or fresh detail — effectively confirming that OpenAI's confidentially filed listing is proceeding exactly as previously outlined, with no acceleration or delay to announce.

$852B

Post-money valuation, March 2026 round

$13.1B

Annualized 2025 revenue (~$2B monthly)

~4,500

People employed

Valuation surge in five months

Roughly a 1.7× jump from the Oct 2025 employee share sale to the March 2026 round

$500B

Oct 2025
share sale

$852B

March 2026
funding round

The path already described

Jun 8, 2026

Confidential S-1 filed with the SEC

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Jul 16, 2026

Chairman confirms: no new update

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Q4 2026 / 2027+

Possible debut window — timing may slip

Read as continuity

The industry took the remark as a reaffirmation of the status quo — the process is on the previously outlined track, neither confirmed to a target nor walked back.

Open questions remain

No valuation or timeline leaves investors pressing on the details — and with rival Anthropic also filing confidentially, a wave of large AI listings looms.

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