OpenAI president Greg Brockman says company could be IPO ready in 2027

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman said the company would be ready for an IPO in 2027, noting that its enterprise revenue has been growing. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, the executive touted how the company had been gaining ground in the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic had already successfully made inroads.

OpenAI 联合创始人兼总裁 Greg Brockman 表示，该公司有望在 2027 年做好首次公开募股（IPO）的准备，并指出其企业业务收入一直在增长。周三在《华尔街日报》举办的科技会议上，这位高管称赞了公司如何在企业市场取得进展，而竞争对手 Anthropic 此前已在该领域成功打入市场。

In response to the interviewer’s question about being IPO-ready next year, Brockman replied, “I think so. Yes.” “We’ve been very clear this year that we want to go public when we feel is the right time for us, and I feel extremely good about the business. I feel like we’ve made so much progress this year, and I’ve honestly never felt more confident in what we’re doing,” Brockman said.

在回应采访者关于明年是否准备好 IPO 的问题时，Brockman 回答道：“我想是的。是的。” Brockman 说：“我们今年已经非常明确地表示，我们希望在认为合适的时机上市，我对这项业务感觉非常好。我觉得我们今年取得了很大的进步，老实说，我从未对我们正在做的事情如此有信心。”

He detailed how OpenAI’s trajectory as an enterprise had changed over the course of 2026, noting that the first and second quarters were “pretty rough.” He also admitted that OpenAI “wasn’t even in the conversation” when it came to agentic coding — an area where Anthropic’s Claude Code has gained market share. “We had Codex, but no one was talking about it,” Brockman continued, “and I think that we just kept our heads down and executed.”

他详细介绍了 OpenAI 作为一家企业在 2026 年的发展轨迹，并指出第一和第二季度“相当艰难”。他还承认，在智能体编码（agentic coding）领域，OpenAI “甚至没有参与竞争”——而 Anthropic 的 Claude Code 在该领域已经获得了市场份额。Brockman 继续说道：“我们有 Codex，但没人谈论它，我认为我们只是埋头苦干并执行了任务。”

By the third quarter, activity picked up, as OpenAI saw 70% quarterly growth in its annualized revenue — something Brockman attributed to the enterprise side of the business doubling. He explained that the growth wasn’t simply the result of something that happened in the quarter itself, but rather the culmination of investments the company had been making up to that point.

到了第三季度，业务活动有所回升，OpenAI 的年化收入实现了 70% 的季度增长，Brockman 将此归功于企业业务规模翻了一番。他解释说，这种增长不仅仅是该季度内发生的事情的结果，而是公司在此之前所做投资的结晶。

Now the majority of OpenAI’s revenue is coming from the enterprise business, which previously accounted for only around 30% of its total revenue. “And it’s not that consumer [revenue has shrunk] … It’s been growing, but it’s the enterprise segment has really taken off,” he said, pointing to a recent partnership with JPMorgan Chase as one example of the type of client it’s now winning deals with.

目前，OpenAI 的大部分收入来自企业业务，而该业务此前仅占其总收入的 30% 左右。他说：“并不是消费者（收入）萎缩了……它一直在增长，但企业部门确实实现了腾飞。”他以最近与摩根大通的合作为例，说明了公司目前正在赢得的客户类型。

Brockman also spoke more broadly about the lessons OpenAI learned from selling into the enterprise market as well. He said the company had come to understand that its job was to help businesses identify the most important milestones they could achieve with its AI technology, build trust with clients, and demonstrate that it was a reliable partner for the long haul.

Brockman 还更广泛地谈到了 OpenAI 从向企业市场销售产品中学到的经验。他说，公司已经明白，其工作是帮助企业确定利用其人工智能技术可以实现的最重要里程碑，与客户建立信任，并证明自己是一个值得长期信赖的合作伙伴。

“A year ago, we weren’t even really in the enterprise game, right? We were really perceived as a consumer company, and a lot of the companies we’d start talking to would say, ‘Is OpenAI really committed to the enterprise?’” Brockman said. “But it’s so different today.”

“一年前，我们甚至还没有真正进入企业市场，对吧？我们被视为一家消费类公司，我们开始接触的许多公司都会问：‘OpenAI 真的致力于企业业务吗？’”Brockman 说，“但今天的情况大不相同了。”