OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500B
8 xnx 8 8/19/2025, 6:23:31 PM nytimes.com ↗
Comments (8)
mwkaufma · 2h ago
(sound of a rubber balloon straining under high pressure)
dude250711 · 1h ago
Could it not deflate slightly and just be a sizable but limp sort of a balloon?
bluefirebrand · 47m ago
Possibly could, but investors chase trends so when the sell off starts it very often becomes an avalanche
xnx · 2h ago
https://archive.ph/wip/0VZUI
xnx · 1h ago
OpenAI is definitely a bubble, AI as a technology is not.
blairbeckwith · 52m 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 · 32m 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 · 16m 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".