OpenAI Valuation in 2025: Inside the $500 Billion AI Giant and Its Road to a $1 Trillion IPO
OpenAI is now one of the most valuable private companies in history — and one of the most controversial. After an October 2025 secondary share sale led by SoftBank and other investors, the ChatGPT maker hit a $500 billion private valuation, with employees selling about $6.6 billion worth of stock at that price.Reuters At the same time, Reuters reports that OpenAI is also laying the groundwork for an IPO that could value the company at up to $1 trillion as early as 2026–2027.Reuters+2Yahoo Finance+2 Yet the company is still deeply loss-making, is committing more than a trillion dollars to AI infrastructure, and faces intensifying competition from Google, Anthropic