ChatGPT owner OpenAI said on Monday it has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make an initial public offering (IPO). "It may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company," the artificial intelligence company said in a statement. Monday's announcement comes just a week after rival Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI , did the same and days before Elon Musk's SpaceX, which merged with his xAI company in February, is set to