OpenAI raised $122B
OpenAI recently raised $122 billion — larger than even the SpaceX IPO capital raise — leaving it extremely well capitalized and reducing pressure for an immediate IPO.
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SpaceX IPOs at $2.89T Market Cap, US Govt Suspends Fable & Mythos 5, Altman Delays OpenAI’s IPO | EP #265
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Jun 18, 2026
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Codex Sets Its Own Goals: AI Agentic Self-Direction Begins
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Peter reveals OpenAI's Codex can now set its own objectives. Salim connects this to the Organizational Singularity. Alex discusses the shallow vs. deep take on Altman's RSI-IPO statement, including technology decoupling from capital. [1] — Peter Diamandis "OpenAI's Codex can now set its own goals. Developers on the team no longer write their own objectives — they ask Codex to write a goal for …" 1:02:44
Codex Sets Its Own Goals — The Beginning of Agentic Self-Direction
OpenAI's Codex can now set its own goals. Developers on the team no longer write their own objectives — they ask Codex to write a goal for itself and for each sub-agent it spawns. This is the inflection point where you stop telling AI what to do and start telling it what you want.
Salim's Organizational Singularity Pilot: Rewriting Companies for the AI Era
Salim Ismail's Organizational Singularity pilot program is launching with 10 companies on a 3-month journey to rewrite themselves from traditional human-centric organizations to AI-centric ones. His early estimate: pure-play AI-native organizations achieve 100x performance improvement over legacy equivalents.
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