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OpenAI announced on Monday that it had submitted confidential documentation for an initial public offering (IPO). The business stated that it hasn’t chosen a date yet and that it might take some time “because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company.”

Only a few weeks have passed since OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, and president, Greg Brockman, defeated Elon Musk, their former coworker and fellow co-founder, in his lawsuit. By converting the formerly nonprofit organization into a for-profit enterprise, Musk charged Altman and Brockman.

However, a California jury determined that Musk’s lawsuit was filed after the statute of limitations. The US District Court for the Northern District of California’s Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved it.

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla stated that he will appeal the decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a post on his social media platform X. He called the decision a “calendar technicality” rather than a decision on the case’s merits. One of OpenAI’s biggest backers, Microsoft (MSFT), may benefit greatly from the IPO. The ChatGPT developer was able to become a for-profit company after the companies changed the terms of their current partnership in October.

According to the terms of that agreement, OpenAI’s nonprofit arm received a $130 billion stake in the for-profit company, while Microsoft received 27 percent of the OpenAI Group PBC, which was then valued at $135 billion. However, since Microsoft invested its first $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, the two companies’ relationship has deteriorated.

The Windows manufacturer would invest more than $13 billion in the business, giving Microsoft exclusive access to OpenAI’s models and intellectual property.