The stakes are especially high for OpenAI’s corporate future, as a bad outcome in this case could negatively impact its plans to file for an IPO later this year. The ChatGPT-maker is racing against Anthropic and Musk’s SpaceX which now owns a rival AI lab, xAI to go public. …
… It is well on its way to becoming one of the largest IPOs in history. Anthropic is joining a pretty crowded field. SpaceX, which owns xAI, already filed its paperwork to go public. …
… Leah Feiger: Is this a good time for SpaceX to go public? Brian Barrett: It's a good question. I do think there is pressure to go public. I think there's only so many $2 trillion IPOs that the market can hang onto. …
… OpenAI has started talking publicly and often about its plans to build a super app, but it’s still unclear what exactly the final product will do. …
… You've got Democrats, you've got Republicans pushing back in a way that is going to make for some weird coalitions this fall. Zoë Schiffer: It's going to be really interesting because I went down to Abilene, Texas, with OpenAI a few months ago and I was really struck. …
… Because a bunch of these companies are trying to go public. So I think we're going to see a lot of these, not Nvidia, but we're talking OpenAI, we're talking— Brian Barrett: SpaceX. …
… And you end up in this cycle, I am assuming, where every new administration is going to just end up clearing house and bringing in their people regardless of whether it's Democrat or Republican. Leah Feiger: Definitely. And to ask myself the question of, where do we go from here? …