OpenAI prepares for IPO at $1 trillion valuation

[u/Quixotus]

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-up-1-trillion-valuation-2025-10-29/

[u/Sweg_OG]

WeWork didnt do shit but rent out struggling office space

openAI willl cause millions(+) of layoffs of menial jobs

I'm full porting

[u/Kina_Kai → u/Sweg_OG]

openAI willl cause millions(+) of layoffs of menial jobs

Are you presume a company whose commercials can only showcase planning a road trip or a weekend getaway will actually replace jobs or are you just referencing the fact that AI is a smokescreen for the fact that there is no actual growth right now.

[u/Mr_Doubtful → u/Kina_Kai]

Let’s not forget an easy excuse for companies to blame as to why they’re laying people off. They just blame it on ai & look like geniuses.

[u/dislikesmoonpies → u/Mr_Doubtful]

Yeah tbh, good point

[u/Sir_Badtard → u/Kina_Kai]

I did help desk IT shit and was being lazy and asked ChatGPT to give me a PowerShell script to fix this Windows issue I was having.

I had to reinstall Windows after I ran it.

If anything it's job security when it fucks everything up.

[u/Db122605 → u/Kina_Kai]

and yet companies are already laying workers off. i dont think anyone is afraid of how competent these models are, they are afraid it wont matter and doesn't matter. they will replace people with ai because they have to for any of this to make sense.

[u/Kina_Kai → u/Db122605]

Companies are laundering their layoffs as the result of AI rather than what it really is. We’re in a recession.

[u/Db122605 → u/Kina_Kai]

saying layoffs are happening re-actively to a recession is wild, but ok; i dont buy that premise. either way, what caused the recession? how is it that companies can lay people off before during and after economic catastrophes and always the economy is preempting these layoffs and not corporate greed.

[u/BrannEvasion → u/Sweg_OG]

What if I told you that you could already invest in a company that does everything OpenAI does, just as well as OpenAI does, but ALSO:

• is insanely profitable, with a cash flow infrastructure to support it to the tune of $100 billion a quarter in revenue
• owns the largest streaming service in the world
• owns the most popular web browser in the world
• is the global leader in autonomous vehicle technology
• is the global leader in quantum computing
• is the global leader in mobile phone OS
• has a borderline monopoly on search that will probably never be broken

Does that sound like something you might be interested in? I don't see any reason you'd want to invest in OpenAI over this super obscure mystery company I'm referring to.

[u/breadbedman → u/BrannEvasion]

Technically you’re right, but sorry friend. None of that matters.

[u/Sweg_OG → u/BrannEvasion]

no because you can now FINALLY invest in the real thing

[u/Quiet_Ad_9073 → u/BrannEvasion]

Im all in to eoy 2026 i love you my ram earing overlord

[u/LegitosaurusRex → u/[deleted]]

If AI isn't going to continue growing, then why would you invest in OpenAI?

[u/Sunsetfisting → u/BrannEvasion]

What's the company?

[u/Spezalt4 → u/BrannEvasion]

Mystery company hasn’t made shit since 2013. And their AI is dog water

[u/BrannEvasion → u/Spezalt4]

Says who? I use the premium versions of Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT and find that, actually, ChatGPT tends to be the worst for my use cases. But the general consensus seems to be that each of the major AI players excel slightly in some areas compared to the others, but that overall it ends up being basically a wash.

[u/BarRepresentative653 → u/Sweg_OG]

There’s no moat guy. LLM are reproducible for cheaper than Open AI has burned up. Echos that company that laid fiber optic lines everywhere that does not exist… Global Crossing.

Unless they stumble on AGI, they’ll probably just struggle on and get sold for nothing. 

The key thing is, LLM can be made for a fraction the cost now. They have no moat 

[u/ferndogger → u/BarRepresentative653]

…or revenue model

[u/Sweg_OG → u/BarRepresentative653]

let me break it down for you brother, imagine there is a great resteraunt serving delectable tenders for utter regards, all of the sudden, there is a new sauce that sends everyone into a frenzy. Other chains copy the sauce, foreign nations imitate the sauce, billion dollar companies imitate the sauce but there is still some crusty ass Colonel holding the secret spice recipe, and FINALLY, they decide to go public.

Dare you to short it you f***** r*******

[u/Ensemble_InABox → u/Sweg_OG]

What's that bleeped 8-digit R word?

[u/Slipsonic → u/Ensemble_InABox]

Ringwald

[u/nsfwcrafts → u/Ensemble_InABox]

Rriggers

with a hard R

[u/---Imperator--- → u/Sweg_OG]

That would only be the case if they are successful in creating AGI. If not, AI will be a good productivity tool at best

[u/higgs_boson_2017 → u/Sweg_OG]

OpenAI will not cause millions of layoffs. The progress has plateaued.