OpenAI’s internal trump card exposed: It will be launched in 2027 at the latest to face the strongest opponents. Recently, a piece of blockbuster news about the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has attracted widespread attention in the technology circle.

OpenAI’s internal trump card exposed: It will be launched in 2027 at the latest to face the strongest opponents. Recently, a blockbuster news about the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has attracted widespread attention in the technology circle. At the internal all-hands meeting, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar clarified the company’s listing timetable to all employees and revealed the latest financial and business core data. Listing is just a new starting point for financing, and the timetable is locked in 2027. During the all-hands meeting, Sarah Friar revealed to employees that the company will complete the listing by 2027 at the latest. If the business continues to remain strong and good, it may also land on the public market earlier. She emphasized to employees that the IPO was not an end point, but a milestone in the development process, which was essentially just another form of financing channel. The previous financing of up to US$122 billion (approximately 824.343 billion yuan) completed in March has left the company with ample room for strategic operations. According to people familiar with the matter, OpenAI actually secretly submitted an IPO prospectus to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in June this year. Its core competitor Anthropic has also adopted a secret declaration strategy and may be officially launched in September this year. In this regard, Friar said there is no need to worry about the pace of competitors, and the OpenAI team will advance its listing plan step by step. Eye-catching financial reports and user scale support sky-high valuations. During the critical period of preparations for listing, OpenAI took advantage of the trend and disclosed a set of strong financial and growth data in the face of outside scrutiny of its $852 billion (approximately 5.76 trillion yuan) valuation. Data shows that in this quarter, OpenAI’s overall annualized revenue increased by 35%, and the annualized revenue of enterprise-level business jumped by 50%. In addition, the weekly active users of its AI programming and office products have exceeded the 20 million mark. According to details disclosed by foreign media, OpenAI’s revenue reached US$6.7 billion (approximately 45.271 billion yuan) in the second quarter of this year, an increase of 18% from the first quarter. Recently, the overall annualized revenue exceeded US$40 billion (approximately 270.276 billion yuan). At the same time, the annualized revenue of its main rival Anthropic has reached US$65 billion (approximately 439.199 billion yuan), showing that the entire generative AI track is in a rapid commercialization stage. The intensive changes in senior management attracted attention, and the management publicly responded to stabilize military morale. It is worth noting that on the eve of the disclosure of the listing plan, OpenAI experienced a wave of senior management personnel adjustments