OPENAI MAY PUSH IPO TO 2027 — COMPANY WORTH $852 BILLION HAS NOT MET WITH A SINGLE INVESTOR YET OpenAI filed confidentially to go public on June 8. Three weeks later, sources tell CNBC the company has not held a single pre-IPO investor meeting. No roadshow, no pricing discussions, no timeline on the table. The company that once targeted a September 2026 debut is now being reported as potentially waiting until 2027 to list. That is a significant shift for a business sitting at an $852 billion private valuation. That valuation was set during a $122 billion funding round closed in April, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia as the primary investors. OpenAI does not need the capital urgently. But the investors who got in during that round will want liquidity eventually, and the IPO market window does not stay open forever. The delay may be strategic. OpenAI is operating under new pressure, from government-gated model releases to an enterprise market tightening AI budgets. Going public in the middle of a spending correction, while your biggest model launch is restricted and your closest competitor Anthropic just reported $30 billion in annual revenue, creates a complicated story to pitch to Wall Street. Prediction markets currently put the odds of a 2026 listing at one in three. Keywords: OpenAI IPO 2026, OpenAI valuation, OpenAI stock, AI company IPO, OpenAI 2027