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OpenAI considers giving five percent stake to US government, proposes other AI businesses join them - report
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OpenAI is debating whether to offer a five percent stake in its near-trillion-dollar business to the US government.
Key facts
- CEO Sam Altman has spoken to Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
- After the US government temporarily blocked the release of rival Anthropic's latest models, OpenAI said that it would also limit the release of its latest GPT-5.6 model
- OpenAI, which is hiring Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball, has also proposed a “public wealth fund” that “provides every citizen
- including those not invested in financial markets
- with a stake in AI-driven economic growth
- A similar case is seen with Intel, where Trump routinely criticized the business before the government bought a 10 percent stake
Summary
As part of the proposed arrangement, reported by the Financial Times, rival AI labs would also be expected to give a similar stake. Such a deal is still “conceptual," but could see the stake transferred to a sovereign wealth fund. Giving the US a stake in the company is viewed as a way to ensure President Donald Trump supports the business, as it increasingly faces political hurdles on investment, data center power, and AI model releases. A similar case is seen with Intel, where Trump routinely criticized the business before the government bought a 10 percent stake.