Openai wants to make it clear that the sale “Openai tokens” from RobinHood will not give daily consumers shares – or stocks – at Openai, the company said in one position From her official account to X. Openai she says she does not support RobinHood’s effort, nor did she participate in facilitating the sale.
“These” Openai tokens “are not openai shares,” Openai’s account said on Wednesday. “We did not work with RobinHood, we did not participate in it and we do not support it. Any transfer of Openai equality requires our approval – we did not approve any transfer.
Openai’s statement is an answer to RobinHood’s announcement earlier this week Start selling the so -called OpenAi, SpaceX, and other private companies to people in the European Union.
RobinHood says the launch represents an attempt to give daily stock exposure to the most valuable private companies in the world through blockchain. Hours after the announcement of these symbols sales, the price of RobinHood shares Shot at all -time high.
But stock in private companies such as Openai and SpaceX is not available to the public. This makes them private. They sell stocks to investors for their choice.
Thus, Openai openly disappoints RobinHood’s effort.
Responding to Openai’s conviction, RobinHood Rouky Diallo’s spokesman told TechCrunch that the Openai Tokens was part of a “limited” Giveaway to offer retail investors “through RobinHood ownership in a SPV vehicle (SPV)”.
This suggests that RobinHood holds a SPV shares that controls a certain number of Openai shares. Like the brands, SPV shares are not direct ownership of shares. It is owned in a vehicle holding the shares. In one way or another, RobinHood seems to link the price of its new product to OpenAi’s shares in this SPV. However, shares in a SPV can also differ from the prices of a real share of the shares.
In RobinHood’s Aid Center, The company notes that when you buy any of its stocks, “you don’t buy the actual stocks – you buy tokenized contracts following their price, which is recorded in a blockchain.”
‘While it is true that they are not technically’ shares’, […] The brands effectively give exposure to retail investors to these private assets, “said Robinhood Vlad Tenev’s chief executive in a Post in x Wednesday. “Giveaway is planting a seed for something much larger and from our announcement we have heard from many private companies that are willing to participate in the tokenization revolution.”
Openai refused to comment further. RobinHood did not answer TechCrunch’s additional questions about SPV.
Private companies are known to return to anything that could affect the way equality is valued. In recent months, the start of the human -like Robotic Figure AI has sent letters of cessation and decoration to two brokers organizing secondary markets that traded the company’s stock. Of course, these situations are different, but most newly formed businesses do not want people to believe that they have authorized stock sales if they do not.
