alt Hacker News> We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company.
Presumably those things were harder as a charity/non-profit.
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edoceo • yesterday at 10:18 PM
Like financial reporting and "transparency" that's required for public companies.
AtlasBarfed • yesterday at 11:26 PM
Capital is going to dry up. All the AI companies are racing to get to market before the dumb money disappears
They need to financially engineer a good looking quarter beforehand.
Perhaps Larry Ellison can cut them a nice quid pro quo for a few months to make OpenAI look profitable (like the SpaceX/Anthropic deal), although that's probably unlikely given the debt Oracle is taking on to build it's infra.