原文：OpenAI Offers US Government a $42 Billion Slice of Itself: Report
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In brief OpenAI has proposed handing the U.S. government a 5% stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, based on its $852 billion March 2026 valuation, according to the Financial Times.
Sam Altman pitched the idea directly to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and wants Anthropic, Google, and Meta to contribute similar stakes.
The talks follow a month of escalating government intervention in frontier AI releases—including a delayed GPT-5.6 rollout and a temporary export ban on Anthropic's top models.
OpenAI has been in talks with the Donald Trump administration about handing the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, the Financial Times reported, citing two people familiar with the discussions. At OpenAI's $852 billion valuation from its March funding round, that slice is worth roughly $42.6 billion.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's pitch frames this as democratizing AI's economic upside—the best way to ensure Americans share in the industry's growth. He raised the idea directly with President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to the FT.
The proposed structure would model a sovereign wealth vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a state-owned fund established in 1976 to invest surplus oil revenues and pay annual dividends to state residents.
The proposal doesn't stop at OpenAI. Altman reportedly wants other major U.S. AI developers—Anthropic, Google, Meta—to cede a similar 5% to the government through the same vehicle. None of those companies have signaled any interest in joining as of yet.
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OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 in limited form just days earlier, after the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director asked for a restricted rollout while official