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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee share buyback via a tender offer to provide liquidity for its workforce. The tender was valued at $852 billion for the company. The move suggests an IPO may be delayed, changing expectations for when OpenAI will go public.
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18 September 2026
The biggest signal today wasn’t a new model—it was money moving to the infrastructure that makes models practical. Crusoe, OpenAI’s Stargate partner, raised $3.9 billion in a Series F that pushes its post-money valuation to $30.9 billion, up from about $10 billion after its roughly year-earlier Series E. The implication is simple: compute is still the scarce input, and data-center scale remains where value concentrates. Crusoe says the cash will fund projects like Abilene and expand its AI data-center and cloud offerings, with board changes and “potential IPO discussions” adding to the sense that this is moving from high-growth story to public-market candidate.
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