Greg Brockman: OpenAI’s first half was ‘pretty rough’ before coding drove a Q3 revenue inflection; ready to IPO in 2027, enterprises now the majority of sales
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- Claim
Partly confirmed
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- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 8 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra189 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5128 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon219 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7158 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 128 days before it.
Key facts
- Also widely shared (MTSlive clip post, ~350k views, Nov 5): Brockman said AI will make ‘significant strides’ in biology, health and curing diseases in the next 12–18 months and that ‘death becoming a choice’ could become possible; original recording not located, wording from the post (unverified)
- OpenAI confidentially filed a draft prospectus in June and has set no listing date (Reuters via TNW)
- Same day OpenAI hired Anthropic’s Claude Code product lead Cat Wu
- No revenue figures were given for the enterprise share
What happened
WSJ is paywalled; the ‘rough’ and ‘revenue inflection’ wording is from Techmeme’s summary of it, the IPO quote from Reuters/TNW.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 3 press, 1 reaction
Press
- WSJ: OpenAI had ‘rough’ first half before coding takeoff, Brockman sayswsj.com, press
- Reuters: OpenAI, ready to IPO in 2027, now counts majority of sales from enterprisesreuters.com, press
- The Next Web: OpenAI will be ready for an IPO in 2027thenextweb.com, press
Reactions
- MTSlive on X: Brockman on ‘death becoming a choice’x.com, discussion
Changes
- Added Brockman’s ‘death becoming a choice’ remark (secondary source only)
- Filed