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OpenAI has put on hold its intention to spin off its robotics and hardware divisions ahead of its initial public offering (IPO).

OpenAI has revised its plans to separate its robotics and hardware businesses.

The company feared that these areas would remain included in the general statements on the eve of the IPO.

OpenAI’s current pre-IPO value is estimated at $1 trillion.

OpenAI has been forced to delay the launch of its robotics spin-off project as it prepares for its IPO, which is already valued at $1 trillion.

OpenAI has expanded far beyond chatbots over the past year. The firm absorbed io Products in 2025 through a stock swap to create AI-powered consumer hardware. It is working with Broadcom to develop AI gas pedals and is considering humanoid robots.

Sam Altman discussed late last year the possibility of separating OpenAI’s robotics and consumer hardware businesses into separate entities. This idea would allow these divisions to operate and develop separately, as well as attract third-party funding outside of OpenAI, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing informed sources.

However, OpenAI abandoned the idea after concluding that the new businesses would likely have to be consolidated anyway.

This means that the restructuring will incur additional operating costs without providing the greater transparency of the financial picture that investors and pre-IPO organizers want to see. Simply put, the company will gain the difficulties associated with separation, but not the accounting benefits.

OpenAI is targeting a public offering near the end of 2026, with a possible fundraising of $60 billion or more, at a valuation that could reach $1 trillion.

Cryptopolitan previously announced its intentions to launch an IPO in Q4 2026 and the hiring of key financial personnel, including Ajmer Dale as chief accounting officer and Cynthia Gaylor as director of corporate finance.

To go public, OpenAI needs to present as clean a financial story as possible.

Earlier this year, OpenAI missed a number of internal revenue and user growth targets, losing ground to Anthropic in the coding and enterprise markets. That’s pretty discouraging, according to a report from the company’s CFO Sarah Friar.

Friar expressed serious concerns to other top executives at OpenAI, noting that the leading AI company could have trouble paying for future computing contracts if revenue trends don’t improve quickly.