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OpenAI weighs a 2027 IPO and expects Anthropic to go public first.

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Bloomberg reports OpenAI is considering an IPO as soon as 2027 and that its leadership expects Anthropic to debut publicly first, though both have already filed confidentially with the SEC. (Bloomberg) Public markets sharpen the two-horse race and bring disclosure requirements that'll finally put real numbers behind the frontier-lab economics we've all been guessing at.

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