OpenAI could be ready to launch an initial public offering as soon as 2027. Co-founder and president Greg Brockman made the remark on Wednesday at a Wall Street Journal tech conference, when an interviewer asked whether the company would be ready to go public next year. "I think so. Yes," Brockman replied.
The comment came with a confident assessment of OpenAI's business. Brockman said the company wants to list when the timing feels right and that he has "never felt more confident" in what OpenAI is building, as its enterprise revenue climbs and its position in the corporate AI market strengthens.
OpenAI enterprise revenue doubles in 2026
Brockman described a year of two halves. OpenAI's first and second quarters were "pretty rough," he admitted, and the company "wasn't even in the conversation" in agentic coding, where rival Anthropic's Claude Code had already won market share. "We had Codex, but no one was talking about it," he said, adding that OpenAI kept its head down and executed.
By the third quarter, momentum shifted: OpenAI recorded 70% quarterly growth in annualized revenue, which Brockman attributed to its enterprise business doubling. The enterprise segment, once about 30% of total revenue, now provides the majority of it, he said. Consumer revenue is not shrinking, according to Brockman, but enterprise has grown far faster.
- IPO readiness: Brockman says OpenAI could be ready in 2027
- Enterprise share of revenue: now the majority, up from around 30%
- Third-quarter annualized revenue growth: 70% quarter over quarter



