Published on
02/07/2026 - 14:06 GMT+2
OpenAI has offered the US government a 5% stake in the company, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, as the ChatGPT maker tries to head off growing political heat in Washington.
That slice would be worth around $42.6 billion (€37.4bn), a significant sum even for a company as flush as OpenAI. The figure is based on the $852 billion (€749bn) price tag investors put on the firm just three months ago, when OpenAI raised fresh funds in March.
According to the reporting, Sam Altman wants other big American AI players — Anthropic, Google and Meta among them — to hand over a similar 5% cut too, effectively creating a government-owned slice of the entire US AI industry.
