OpenAI almost doubled his estimate from $86 billion to $157 billion on Wednesday after a $6.6 billion funding round largest venture capital deal sometimes. The maker of ChatGPT raised more than Elon Musk's xAI, which DESIGNATED a $6 billion funding round in one 24 billion dollars assessment in May.
Thriving capital led the roundwith an investment of 1.3 billion dollars. Fidelity, Nvidia and SoftBank also invested, but Microsoft remains the startup's biggest corporate backer, adding $750 million to its existing round. 13 billion dollars investment. Apple was thinking of investing but decided not to to avoid future conflicts with OpenAI's competitors, for Barron's.
IN funding announcementOpenAI stated that it has increased its weekly number of users to over 250 millionan increase of 50 million from two months ago. ChatGPT has more than double the user base now than in November 2023.
OpenAI will use the funding to continue building AI tools and AI research. The startup had an income of 300 million dollars last month and expects $3.7 billion in revenue this year on a $5 billion loss.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images
OpenAI has recently seen a wave of high-level departures, with OpenAI Chief Technology Officer MIra Murati, Vice President of Research Barret Zoph and Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, they all leave the company on the same day last week.
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