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Creative Ways to Get OpenAI Exposure Before It Goes Public

AI may be rewriting the future, but its stock remains off-limits to ordinary investors. Here are the imperfect, creative and picks-and-shovels strategies to gain exposure.

OpenAI can do everything, it seems. One thing it can’t do is sell you a slice of its stock.

The San Francisco-based startup has rocketed from obscurity to headline news since launching ChatGPT in 2022. Today, its software writes code, drafts presentations and converses like a person, all while inspiring trillion-dollar bets across Silicon Valley and Wall Street, despite rising bubble concerns dampening the euphoria.