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OpenAI创始人叫板唱衰者,并回应上市传闻
OpenAI首席执行官山姆·奥尔特曼。图片来源:Kyle Grillot—Bloomberg/Getty Images

山姆·奥尔特曼(Sam Altman)显然已对唱衰者感到厌烦,他甚至希望OpenAI能上市,好让这些批评者能用真金白银来支持他们的观点。

在《BG2》播客节目中,当主持人、Altimeter Capital创始人布拉德·格斯特纳(Brad Gerstner)问及OpenAI据称实现的130亿美元营收时,这位首席执行官马上开启了抗辩模式。这一数字虽然可观,约与迪克体育用品(Dick's Sporting Goods)的营收相当,但相较于OpenAI已承诺投入计算基础设施的1.4万亿美元,则显得相形见绌。

“首先,我们的实际营收远高于这个数字。其次,布拉德,如果你想出售你持有的股份,我可以帮你找到买家,”奥尔特曼说,“我真是受够了。我相信有很多人愿意购买OpenAI的股份。”

他预测,公司营收将飞速增长,ChatGPT的用户规模会持续扩张,而OpenAI正在布局的消费级设备业务也有望迅速起飞。

“我认为,我们可以很快把你或任何其他人的股份,卖给那些在网上唱空最起劲的人,”奥尔特曼表示。

尽管未上市交易,但OpenAI拥有一长串机构投资者,他们均持有这家初创公司的私人股份。这包括格斯特纳的Altimeter Capital,该基金在去年一轮66亿美元的融资中投入了未公开的金额,那轮融资使公司估值达到1,570亿美元。在上个月为现任和前任员工进行的二级股份出售后,OpenAI的估值已升至5,000亿美元。

奥尔特曼表示,他“并不经常”希望OpenAI成为上市公司,但他强调上市交易有一个显著的好处。

“某些人总是宣称OpenAI快要倒闭,每当听到这些话我就想让公司上市,然后对他们说,随便做空我们的股票。然后,我会高兴地看着他们血本无归,”他补充道。

OpenAI暂未回应《财富》杂志的置评请求。

这位OpenAI的首席执行官以在冲突面前不退让而闻名。上周末,OpenAI联合创始人兼特斯拉(Tesla)首席执行官埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)在社交媒体上发文抨击奥尔特曼,指控他“窃取了一家非营利组织”。奥尔特曼回应道:“是我帮你那个被你弃之不顾的项目起死回生,它本应成为有史以来最大的非营利组织。”

尽管奥尔特曼偶尔希望OpenAI上市,但这家AI巨头并未明确其上市时间表。该公司最初以非营利组织形式成立,并于上周重组为一家营利性公益公司(PBC)。此举将有助于其更轻松地筹集资金,并可能为未来的首次公开募股(IPO)铺平道路。

对于OpenAI可能上市的时间,奥尔特曼仍然态度模糊。尽管路透社上周报道称,公司正筹备在2026或2027年以高达1万亿美元的估值进行IPO,但奥尔特曼在播客中重申并无具体计划。

不过,他承认公司最终上市是大势所趋。

“我是个现实主义者。我假设这一天终会到来,但是——我不明白人们为什么要写这些报道,”奥尔特曼在谈及路透社的报道时表示,“我们心中没有具体的日期。董事会没有做出相关决定或类似的事情。我只是认为,上市是事情最终的发展方向。”(*)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

山姆·奥尔特曼(Sam Altman)显然已对唱衰者感到厌烦,他甚至希望OpenAI能上市,好让这些批评者能用真金白银来支持他们的观点。

在《BG2》播客节目中,当主持人、Altimeter Capital创始人布拉德·格斯特纳(Brad Gerstner)问及OpenAI据称实现的130亿美元营收时,这位首席执行官马上开启了抗辩模式。这一数字虽然可观,约与迪克体育用品(Dick's Sporting Goods)的营收相当,但相较于OpenAI已承诺投入计算基础设施的1.4万亿美元,则显得相形见绌。

“首先,我们的实际营收远高于这个数字。其次,布拉德,如果你想出售你持有的股份,我可以帮你找到买家,”奥尔特曼说,“我真是受够了。我相信有很多人愿意购买OpenAI的股份。”

他预测,公司营收将飞速增长,ChatGPT的用户规模会持续扩张,而OpenAI正在布局的消费级设备业务也有望迅速起飞。

“我认为,我们可以很快把你或任何其他人的股份,卖给那些在网上唱空最起劲的人,”奥尔特曼表示。

尽管未上市交易,但OpenAI拥有一长串机构投资者,他们均持有这家初创公司的私人股份。这包括格斯特纳的Altimeter Capital,该基金在去年一轮66亿美元的融资中投入了未公开的金额,那轮融资使公司估值达到1,570亿美元。在上个月为现任和前任员工进行的二级股份出售后,OpenAI的估值已升至5,000亿美元。

奥尔特曼表示,他“并不经常”希望OpenAI成为上市公司,但他强调上市交易有一个显著的好处。

“某些人总是宣称OpenAI快要倒闭,每当听到这些话我就想让公司上市,然后对他们说,随便做空我们的股票。然后,我会高兴地看着他们血本无归,”他补充道。

OpenAI暂未回应《财富》杂志的置评请求。

这位OpenAI的首席执行官以在冲突面前不退让而闻名。上周末,OpenAI联合创始人兼特斯拉(Tesla)首席执行官埃隆·马斯克(Elon Musk)在社交媒体上发文抨击奥尔特曼,指控他“窃取了一家非营利组织”。奥尔特曼回应道:“是我帮你那个被你弃之不顾的项目起死回生,它本应成为有史以来最大的非营利组织。”

尽管奥尔特曼偶尔希望OpenAI上市,但这家AI巨头并未明确其上市时间表。该公司最初以非营利组织形式成立,并于上周重组为一家营利性公益公司(PBC)。此举将有助于其更轻松地筹集资金,并可能为未来的首次公开募股(IPO)铺平道路。

对于OpenAI可能上市的时间,奥尔特曼仍然态度模糊。尽管路透社上周报道称,公司正筹备在2026或2027年以高达1万亿美元的估值进行IPO,但奥尔特曼在播客中重申并无具体计划。

不过,他承认公司最终上市是大势所趋。

“我是个现实主义者。我假设这一天终会到来,但是——我不明白人们为什么要写这些报道,”奥尔特曼在谈及路透社的报道时表示,“我们心中没有具体的日期。董事会没有做出相关决定或类似的事情。我只是认为,上市是事情最终的发展方向。”(*)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

Sam Altman is getting fed up with the haters, and he wishes OpenAI were public so they could put money behind their critiques.

The CEO quickly became defensive when BG2 podcast host and Altimeter Capital founder Brad Gerstner asked about OpenAI’s reported $13 billion in revenue—a respectable figure about equal to that of Dick’s Sporting Goods, but which pales in comparison to the $1.4 trillion OpenAI has committed to investing in computing infrastructure.

“First of all, we’re doing well more revenue than that. Second of all, Brad, if you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer,” Altman said. “I just—enough. I think there are a lot of people who would love to buy OpenAI shares.”

He predicted revenue will grow steeply, that ChatGPT will continue to grow, and that OpenAI’s developing consumer device business will take off.

“I think we could sell, you know, your shares or anybody else’s to some of the people who are making the most noise on Twitter, whatever, about this very quickly,” Altman said.

Although not publicly traded, OpenAI’s long list of institutional backers have privately held shares in the startup. This includes Gerstner’s Altimeter Capital, which invested an undisclosed amount as part of last year’s $6.6 billion funding round that valued the company at $157 billion. OpenAI is now worth $500 billion after a secondary share sale for current and former employees last month.

Altman also said that there are “not many times” he wishes OpenAI were a public company, but he highlighted one particular benefit of having publicly traded shares.

“One of the rare times it’s appealing is when those people are writing these ridiculous ‘OpenAI is about to go out of business.’ I would love to tell them they could just short the stock, and I would love to see them get burned on that,” he added.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.

The OpenAI CEO is known for not backing down from conflict. Over the weekend, OpenAI cofounder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took shots at Altman, alleging he “stole a nonprofit.” Altman responded, “I helped turn the thing you left for dead into what should be the largest nonprofit ever.”

Despite Altman’s occasional wish that OpenAI were publicly traded, the AI giant has no clear timeline on when it will do so. The company, which was founded as a nonprofit, restructured as a for-profit public benefit corporation, or PBC, last week. The move will help it raise funds more easily and could pave the way for a future initial public offering.

Altman has remained ambivalent about the potential timing for OpenAI to go public. Despite a report by Reuters last week claiming the company was preparing for an IPO in 2026 or 2027 at a whopping $1 trillion valuation, Altman reiterated on the podcast there is no specific plan.

Still, he acknowledged that the idea is to go public eventually.

“I’m a realist. I assume it will happen someday, but that was—I don’t know why people write these reports,” Altman said about the Reuters report. “We don’t have a date in mind. We don’t have a board decision to do this or anything like that. I just assume it’s where things will eventually go.”

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