--- title: Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI | daily.dev description: Sam Altman is reportedly in talks with President Trump about giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth roughly $42.6 billion at current valuation —... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-family-s-300-stake-in-openai-ktgel7aqn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI | daily.dev og:description: Sam Altman is reportedly in talks with President Trump about giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth roughly $42.6 billion at current valuation —... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-family-s-300-stake-in-openai-ktgel7aqn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ktgel7aQn.png og:image:alt: Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sam Altman is reportedly in talks with President Trump about giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, worth roughly $42.6 billion at current valuation — about $320 per American household if distributed equally. The idea draws on Altman's 2021 proposal for a broad wealth-sharing fund and echoes Senator Bernie Sanders' more radical 50% stake proposal. The rationale includes compensating creators whose work trained AI models and providing a safety net against AI-driven job displacement. However, the author argues the plan functions more as political narrative than concrete policy, noting Altman has floated versions of this idea for five years with little tangible progress. The real strategic benefit for OpenAI may be currying favor with the Trump administration, which has shown appetite for tech equity deals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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