“I would love to tell them they could just short the stock, and I would love to see them get burned on that.”

Despite reports, Altman said OpenAI has no specific timeline on going public.

“I would love to tell them they could just short the stock, and I would love to see them get burned on that.”

The agreement comes less than a week after OpenAI altered its partnership with its longtime backer Microsoft, which until early this year was the startup's exclusive cloud…

OpenAI has inked more than $1.4 trillion of infrastructure deals, raising questions about how it will pay for those commitments.