IPO Newsroom(@IPONewsroom_):OPENAI JUST BOUGHT BACK ROUGHLY $7 BILLION OF EMPLOYEE SHARES ITSELF, INSTEAD OF BRINGING IN OUTSIDE INVESTORS Current and former employees sold in the tender offer, but the buyer this time was OpenAI itself, not Thrive Capital or SoftBank like in past rounds, per people familiar with the matter. The deal valued OpenAI at $852 billion, unchanged from its $122 billion funding round in March

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2026.08.10 20:42

OPENAI JUST BOUGHT BACK ROUGHLY $7 BILLION OF EMPLOYEE SHARES ITSELF, INSTEAD OF BRINGING IN OUTSIDE INVESTORS Current and former employees sold in the tender offer, but the buyer this time was OpenAI itself, not Thrive Capital or SoftBank like in past rounds, per people familiar with the matter. The deal valued OpenAI at $852 billion, unchanged from its $122 billion funding round in March - Bloomberg