Colleagues discussed the incident on internal message boards, according to documents seen by WIRED.

The ChatGPT-maker announced it has filed paperwork to go public, just a week after rival Anthropic took the same step.

“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist. “It’s the same here.”

Activists say it’s the first time Big Tech employees have publicly called for regulations governing data center projects.

The AI giant behind Claude submitted paperwork on Monday that would take it public, just a couple of weeks after SpaceX’s splashy IPO announcement.