Openi is intended to complete a fundraising agreement of $ 40 billion which doubles the evaluation of the high -profile company only four months ago.
The new fundraising round, led by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank, Openai values at $ 300 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the agreement that spoke on condition of anonymity. The agreement would make Openi one of the most precious private companies in the world, together with the Spacex and Bytedance missile company, the manufacturer of Tiktok.
SoftBank will invest up to $ 40 billion in Openai and will unions the agreement, with other investors who provide about a quarter of the total funds, said people. That figure would be an increase of $ 15 billion compared to a total that was discussed a week ago.
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The agreement shows that investors are still bullish on the leaders of the artificial intelligence market like Openii, despite the collapse of the United States financial markets at the end of last month after a Chinese company called Deepseek revealed rival technology.
In December, Deepseek declared that he had built one of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the world using much less computer chips than many experts thought possible. The prevalent wisdom had been that only companies like Openai – who spent dozens of billions of dollars by training their artificial intelligence technologies using tens of thousands of specialized chips – could build the most powerful systems.
Deepseek built its technology with only 2,000 chips and spent only about $ 6 million in raw calculation power.
But many on the field believe that companies with access to the maximum power elaborate will continue to guide the market. At the end of last month, Openai and Softbank joined Oracle in an agreement to spend $ 100 billion erected new data centers for computers in the United States that will be used to build the agreement was announced by President Trump on his second day in office.
(The New York Times sued Openi and its partner, Microsoft, supporting the violation of the copyright of news related to artificial intelligence systems. The two companies denied the affirmations of the cause).