OpenAI, a chatbot developing company based on artificial intelligence ChatGPT, is negotiating a new round of financing for at least $100 billion. OpenAI also held talks to raise funding for a new chip manufacturing venture with Abu Dhabi-based G42.
OpenAI is scaling, and has plans to attract multi-billion dollar investments
The company OpenAI, which developed a chatbot based on artificial intelligence ChatGPT, is conducting negotiations for 100 billion dollars of investment.
The publication of Bloomberg reports this.
The publication, citing its sources, notes that the terms, assessment and terms of the financing round have not yet been finalized and may change.
OpenAI has also held talks to raise funding for a new chip manufacturing venture with Abu Dhabi-based G42.
It is currently unclear whether the chip development venture and the company's broader financing are connected. OpenAI has discussed raising from 8 to 10 billion dollars from the G42.
OpenAI plans to complete a separate tender offer led by Thrive Capital in early January, which will allow company employees to sell shares at a price of $86 billion, the report said.
In addition, Microsoft has previously pledged to invest more than $10 billion in OpenAI.
OpenAI attracted new investors
The startup developer of the ChatGPT chatbot — OpenAI — has found new investors, having completed the sale of shares worth $300 million at a valuation of $27-29 billion.
TechCrunch writes about this regarding documents that the publication has seen.
According to documents seen by TechCrunch, venture capital firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive and K2 Global bought new shares.
The publication's source reports that the Founders Fund is also investing. In general, venture investors invested a little more than $300 million at a valuation of the company at 27-29 billion dollars. This is separate from a major investment from Microsoft announced earlier this year.
It is believed that the size of Microsoft's investment is about $10 billion, the publication writes.
OpenAI declined to comment on the information.
As far as we understand, the agreements have already been signed by the investors and the money has been transferred; all that remains is to receive a countersignature from OpenAI. The plan was to take that investment public next week.
In general, according to the interlocutor, foreign investors now own more than 30%
