Openai is scheduled to complete the money raising deal worth $ 40 billion, almost doubled the prominent assessment of the company for four months.
The new money collection tour, led by the Japanese Group Softbank, Openai, is estimated at $ 300 billion, according to three people who have knowledge of the deal who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Openai’s deal will make one of the most valuable private companies in the world, along with Rocket Compacex and Bytedance, Tiktok maker.
The people said that Softbank will invest up to $ 40 billion in Openai and encourage the deal, with other investors who provide about a quarter of the total boxes. This number will be an increase of $ 15 billion over the total Discuss one week ago.
CNBC I mentioned earlier On investment talks.
The deal shows that investors are still optimistic about the leaders of the artificial intelligence market like Openai, though American financial markets fell late last month After a Chinese company called Deepseek, unveiled the competing technology.
In December, Dibsik said it was One of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems was built in the world Use A lot of computer chips, which many experts believe. The prevailing wisdom was that companies like Openai – which spent tens of billions of dollars training artificial intelligence technologies using tens of thousands of specialized chips – can build the most powerful systems.
Deepseek built its technology with only 2000 chips and spent about 6 million dollars in the power of raw computing.
But many in this field believe that companies that have access to the most computing power will continue to lead the market. Late last month, Openai and Softbank joined Oracle in an agreement to spend $ 100 billion on new computer data centers in the United States, which will be used to build Trump’s artificial intelligence The deal was announced On his second day in the office.
(New York Times prosecution Openai and its partner, Microsoft, claiming that copyright violation of news content related to artificial intelligence systems. The two companies denied the claims of the case.)
