By Marta Khomyn
Publication Date: 2026-06-09 20:08:00
A huge change is coming to the world’s booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector.
Starting with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, followed by OpenAI and Anthropic, all three private companies are poised to sell shares of their stocks to the general public for the first time. These are so-called Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).
SpaceX – the first to launch this Friday, June 12 – expects to raise $75 billion by selling just 4% of the company’s shares.
With a fortune of around $800 billion, Musk is already the richest man in the world. He now owns about 42% of SpaceX and has options to buy more shares at a fraction of the $135 per share price regular investors pay. Given his existing wealth, Musk is likely to become the world’s first trillionaire after the stock market listing on Friday.
Together, these three companies are worth nearly $4 trillion and are expected to raise a record-breaking $200 billion, despite reasonable concerns that…