According to the report, Openai has been discussing up to $ 40 billion to raise up to $ 40 billion in a large -scale funding round led by SoftBank.
The financing round will almost double the value of Chatgpt manufacturers in just a few months. This is a big feat after gathering $ 6.6 billion with $ 157 billion in October. According to the Wall Street Journal。
According to reports, SoftBank invested $ 15 billion to $ 25 billion in Openai and raised Microsoft as a company's largest supporter.
Japan's high -tech companies will also help find investors in the remaining funding rounds, but reports that it can still collapse.
Part of the funds will be used to cover Openai's $ 18 billion commitment to the recently announced Stargate project.
Last week, President Donald Trump announced a $ 500 billion AI infrastructure project to provide money to a huge data center in Texas.
Openai, SoftBank, and Oracle jointly launched a venture.
SoftBank and Openai did not respond immediately to comment requests.
Currently, Microsoft is the largest investor in Openai and has promised nearly $ 14 billion.
Sam Altman, the highest executive officer of Openai, says that by developing his own AI chips and partnership with other high -tech gifts like Oracle, he is trying to chip away his company's dependence on Microsoft. It is.
Under the Stargate contract, Microsoft agreed to abandon Openai's status as an exclusive cloud service provider.
SoftBank can spend more than $ 40 billion in partnerships with Openai. Reported by Financial Times Thursday.
“The lecture is ongoing, and the amount that SoftBank can invest in the open -eye in the primary queue is moving,” he said to the FT.
In November, Openai allowed employees to sell about $ 1.5 billion equivalent to Softbank and sell shares worth about $ 1.5 billion. According to the CNBC report。
Masayoshi's son, who established a Japanese technology company in 1981, was reported to have been obsessed with demanding a greater stock of startups.
Openai, on the other hand, is in the process of shifting to a profit structure. This is a movement filled with legal tasks from Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has cut off his relationship with the company in 2018 after being established with Altman and others.
The mask joined him at the rally, and was a dependent Trump alliance in his campaign, criticizing the Stargate Project, and questioned his legitimacy.
“They don't actually have money,” said the mask I wrote it on his social platform X Last week, after the announcement. “SoftBank is less than $ 100 billion. I have it as a good authority.”
Non -profit organizations are aiming to operate like a startup, so some of the restrictions are deleted.
“The hundreds of millions of dollars, which major companies are investing in AI development, indicate that Openai is really needed to keep pursuing missions,” said Openai's Board of Directors.
If his son spends more than $ 40 billion in investing in Openai, it is one of his largest in history. Defeated $ 16 billion with the failed Office Space Company, Wework.
