--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "720fa4da6620c01d42113c746cb8fc8ea114dab0ec454ae0ff808d48221e7b8b" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/720fa4da?lang=en" title: "OpenAI Targets 2027 IPO Following 50% Enterprise Revenue Surge" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-08-20T02:51:44.000Z" category: "Industry" topics: ["openai","funding","enterprise"] source_urls: ["https://huggingnews.com/ai/openai-targets-2027-ipo-following-50percent-enterprise-revenue-surge-c90dd4e3","https://x.com/Techmeme/status/2090160634608669039","https://x.com/firstadopter/status/2090164417875087403","https://x.com/firstadopter/status/2090166299829617036","https://x.com/StockMKTNewz/status/2090160348523340104","https://x.com/FirstSquawk/status/2090158723763499288","https://x.com/CNBC/status/2090167010562801668","https://x.com/financialjuice/status/2090158687142686745"] summary: "AI coding and work products from the developer of ChatGPT have reached 20 million weekly active users. CFO Sarah Friar shared this figure during a companywide meeting where she announced that OpenAI will go public by 2027, or potentially sooner if business growth continues to inflect. Friar presented internal slides showing a 35% quarter to date increase in the firm's total revenue run rate. Enterprise revenue run rate grew 50% in the same period, while agentic weekly average users increased more than 3.5 times. API tokens per minute doubled this quarter, adding further momentum to the target for a public listing that Friar characterized as a way to improve employee retention." --- # OpenAI Targets 2027 IPO Following 50% Enterprise Revenue Surge > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-08-20T02:51:44.000Z **Category:** Industry **Topics:** openai, funding, enterprise ## Summary AI coding and work products from the developer of ChatGPT have reached 20 million weekly active users\. CFO Sarah Friar shared this figure during a companywide meeting where she announced that OpenAI will go public by 2027, or potentially sooner if business growth continues to inflect\. Friar presented internal slides showing a 35% quarter to date increase in the firm's total revenue run rate\. Enterprise revenue run rate grew 50% in the same period, while agentic weekly average users increased more than 3\.5 times\. API tokens per minute doubled this quarter, adding further momentum to the target for a public listing that Friar characterized as a way to improve employee retention\. ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]()