Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a DevDay Q&A that the company will not IPO in the near term unless it can make more confident commitments on model safety, with no clear timetable. He said waiting too long to go public would be bad for the world, and worried about letting Wall Street backers down in the name of safety after listing; he also said pacing the frontier means putting safety and alignment ahead of capability.