Altman says OpenAI won't go public before model safety commitments
What happened
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said the company is unlikely to go public this year. On 30 September 2026, in a press Q&A after the DevDay keynote, Altman went further, saying the company will not go public before it can make reliable commitments on model safety, and that there is no clear timeline. He said waiting too long would also be bad for the world, and that he worries going public would create pressure to disappoint Wall Street supporters in the name of safety. Altman explained "pacing the frontier" as putting safety and alignment ahead of capability, rather than directly slowing down. On 1 October 2026, TechCrunch reported that at the same Dev Day, Altman announced the launch of the Decisions API, which lets users preset a set of options for the Luna model to classify or choose agent behaviour, released as a limited preview.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 22 min ago
Developments
- Oct 1 03:00 · 1 reportsOpenAI launches Decisions API at Dev DayTechCrunch · AI：OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
- Sep 30 08:19 · 1 reportsAltman says OpenAI will not go public until its models are safeThe Verge · AI：Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
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- TechCrunch · AIOpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
One of the more intriguing announcements at OpenAI’s Dev Day event on Tuesday came in an aside from CEO Sam Altman, who revealed the company’s new “Decisions API.” The API apparently provides similar functionality to Jev, a model released by TypeSafe AI earlier this month that’s explicitly designed for software automation.
- The Verge · AISam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a press Q&A after the DevDay keynote that the company would not go public before it could make reliable commitments on model safety, and had no firm timetable. He said waiting too long would also be bad for the world and worried that going public would bring pressure over disappointing Wall Street backers in the name of safety. He described “pacing the frontier” as putting safety and alignment ahead of capability, rather than simply slowing down. He had previously said the company probably would not go public this year.
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