Sam Altman Says OpenAI Won’t Go Public Until Its Models Are Safe
Sam Altman told CNBC and reporters at DevDay on 29 September 2026 that OpenAI has no IPO timeline and must first run a few safety cases and be able to make confident safety claims. We explain what a safety case is, how Anthropic and Google DeepMind use the term, what OpenAI’s own documents call the same thing, why the claim is harder to make to public investors, and how to tell when the condition has been met.
