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OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500B

11 xnx 11 8/19/2025, 6:23:31 PM nytimes.com ↗

Comments (11)

mwkaufma · 3h ago

(sound of a rubber balloon straining under high pressure)

dude250711 · 3h ago

Could it not deflate slightly and just be a sizable but limp sort of a balloon?

bluefirebrand · 2h ago

Possibly could, but investors chase trends so when the sell off starts it very often becomes an avalanche

xnx · 4h ago

https://archive.ph/wip/0VZUI

jgalt212 · 1h ago

The distance between OpenAI and its competitors has been shrinking for years (and across some metrics is now negative), yet the price keeps going on up. And I cannot figure out Thrive. Weren't they an early investor, yet they keep chasing the price higher?

xnx · 2h ago

OpenAI is definitely a bubble, AI as a technology is not.

bhhaskin · 59m ago

AI isn't, but we don't have AI. We have LLM and ML.

checker659 · 34m ago

Does the economics of AI hold up?

blairbeckwith · 2h ago

If AI as a technology is not a bubble, why would the by-far-far-far most popular consumer technology leveraging that technology be a bubble?

l1tany11 · 2h ago

Because people think the progress shown with gpt5 is unimpressive. Meanwhile Claude is very successful, Grok has come out of nowhere and according to some benchmarks matches or exceeds gpt5 slightly. Meaning openai might not be THE horse to bet on. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a race going on with the potential for a big prize at the end, even at current valuations. Only time will tell! As per usual!

blairbeckwith · 2h ago

But that's just ... Not what a bubble is. A market leader having viable competitors doesn't make them any less of a market leader, and doesn't make them "a bubble".