On January 21, 2025, US President Donald Trump published comments on AI infrastructure in Roosevelt, the White House, Washington White House. OPENAI CEO SAM Altman spoke next to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi’s son.
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CNBC confirms that OpenAI is undergoing talks to raise up to $ 40 billion in funds in a fund, which will increase the valuation of the artificial intelligence company to $ 340 billion.
According to two familiar negotiations, the Softbank of Massosh’s son’s SoftBank will lead the leadership of $ 15 billion to $ 25 billion, because the negotiations are ongoing and they are unwilling to disclose their names. SoftBank will surpass Microsoft As the highest supporter of OpenAI.
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Some funds can be used for Openai’s commitment to Stargate. Oracle This is President Donald Trump Sources said, last week. The plan requires a billions of dollars to invest in AI infrastructure in the United States.
OpenAI was valued at $ 157 billion by private investors. In the second half of 2022, the company launched the ChatGPT Chatbot and started prosperity in the Generation AI. Openai Closed the latest 6.6 billion US dollars in OctoberPrepare positive and Elon Musk’s XAI, and Microsoft, Google,,,,, Amazon And humans.
At the same time, the Chinese start -ups laboratory Deepseek exploded in the United States and held new competition to Openai. Deepseek saw its application Surge arrive Apple The App Store ranks this week and reported that the training of its powerful models is a small part of the cost of American competitors.
CEO Sam Altman said in a event held in Washington Special Economic Zone on Thursday that Deepseek was obviously a great model.
He said: “This reminds people of the level of competition and the needs of the Democratic Party to win.” He said, which also pointed out “the level of interest in reasoning and the level of open source interest.”
