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Sam Altman is steering OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, toward a public listing, and the run-up is already showing strain.
Executive departures and changes to the safety team are unsettling staff as the company moves toward that window. OpenAI has no public shares yet.
The setup in focus is the listing itself, which makes the internal signals the only readable data right now: who is leaving, from which functions, and whether Altman can stabilize the organization before it sits across from institutional investors on a roadshow.
Changes inside the safety function carry specific weight. OpenAI has positioned its commitment to responsible model development as central to how regulators, enterprise customers, and the public evaluate the company.
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