- SoftBank is holding up to $ 25 billion in Openai, which may estimate it about 300 billion dollars.
- The Openai deal can make the most valuable technology company after Spacex.
- The Openai’s financing round can witness $ 15 billion in the Stargate Ai infrastructure project.
Softbank is preparing to lead the new investment in Openai with a value of $ 300 billion, and Business Insider – a step that will appreciate the ChatGPT maker like the Tiktok bytedance owner.
The Japanese investment giant is in talks to invest up to $ 25 billion in Openai, Financial times I mentioned for the first time.
While Spacex is the most valuable private company in the world, the financing round can push Openai to second place alongside the giant Chinese giant. Openai is currently ranked third most valuable for technology.
Conversations between Openai and Softbank are ongoing, which means details about the size of the round and the evaluation is subject to change. If Ai Juggernaut evaluates the target of $ 300 billion, it will double its current evaluation of $ 157 billion.
Spacex rating is about 350 billion dollars after the owned Elon Musk He agreed to replay $ 1.25 billion The stock value at $ 185 per share in December. BEDEDANCE, the parent company of Tiktok, which similarly robbed its evaluation to $ 300 billion after a re -purchase, saving investors about $ 180 per share, Wall Street Journal I mentioned In November.
Openai can become one of the three companies worldwide with a percentage evaluation; STRIPE and Shein followed up on assessments of $ 70 billion and $ 66 billion, respectively.
Before the latest investment talks at SoftBank, Openai raised nearly $ 20 billion of heavy investment, including Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures and NVIDIA.
If Softbank is invested between $ 15 to 20 billion dollars in Openai, it will overcome Microsoft – which has poured about $ 13 billion in the company so far – as a major investor in Openai.
Such a deal would represent the most important bet on the SoftBank Treaty Breaks and forms a major part of the broader ambitions of the milliore founder, Masayoshi Son, to enter into the era of “artificial intelligence”.
Masayoshi Son is the founder and CEO of Japanese Softbank Holding Company.
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The son, who achieved his original wealth from a timely bet on Ali Baba in the point of point, had previously spoken of using him without stopping to chat from Openai, and expected artificial intelligence more than 10,000 times more intelligent than humans who will arrive by mid -decade.
The new investment from Softbank will lead to an increase in deepening its relationship with Openai after companies announced their plans last week to form Stargate, a joint project that aims to spend up to $ 500 billion on Amnesty International Infrastructure projects in the United States during the next four years .
The son of Softbank will be the head of the project, which was revealed in the White House by President Donald Trump. The first stock financiers include Oracle and MGX in the UAE along with SoftBank and Openai. The project will start publishing $ 100 billion immediately, According to Openai.
It is not yet clear where companies will get capital, with Openai currently. I suggested that SoftBank’s Investing the proposed shares It can allow Openai to invest about $ 15 billion in Stargate.
Softbank rejected the comment. Openai did not immediately respond to the Insider Business request for comment.
