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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 16, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI Closes a $7 Billion Employee Share Sale at an $852 Billion Valuation, Unchanged From March
The company itself bought the shares rather than outside investors, and its confidential initial public offering filing from June still carries no listing date.
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion tender offer letting current and former employees sell shares, at a valuation of $852 billion. That figure is unchanged from the March 2026 round in which the company raised $122 billion from institutional…
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