Is waiting better? Surely it would be better to be early, before faith is lost? Being late to a party as it’s deflating is the worst case I think

My hunch is that it’s better to be late in this scenario because now your moves are under public scrutiny or at least neck-deep. People can pull out, it could slow them down and at the end look worse.

As a privately held company, it functions under different dynamics that in the environment we’re seeing feels better to stay private for longer.

Well they’re struggling to raise cash via new rounds, having slashed both the raise amount and valuation themselves. So in that situation they may go bust before having a chance to go public.

OAI is in the middle of another funding round at $1.25T. If Anthropic with allegedly better financials can't get above $1.1T then why would anyone buy OAI at $1.25T

Or then any numbers they would have publicly presented with even previous scrutiny would have been so bad no one would have bought them at price they want.