Open, CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by US President Donald Trump, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (R) and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), January 21, 2025 A speech was delivered at a press conference held by the White House Roosevelt room. Washington, DC.
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CNBC confirms that SoftBank is investing at $ 25 billion in Openai, which will make this the highest supporter of the startup.
According to people familiar with the matter, the transaction has not been completed, because the negotiation is confidential, and he does not require naming. this foot First of all, we must report the potential investment of SoftBank.
In November, OpenAI allowed employees to sell about 1.5 billion US dollars of stocks in the bidding appointment I told CNBC at that timeEssence A source said that SoftBank founder Masayoshi son insisted on asking for a larger shares in this startup after investing $ 500 million into OpenAI’s final round of financing.
SoftBank, Openai and Oracle Cooperate joint venture Known as the door of the interstellar, unveiled in the White House President Donald Trump last week. The plan is required to use billions of dollars for American artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Openai, so far to date Microsoft As its main investor, he is facing ProfitabilityEssence OPENAI was established in 2015. It is a non -profit organization that is creating a public welfare company to supervise business operations, eliminate some non -profit restrictions, and allow it to be more like high -growth startup operations. This means that it requires more capital and more calculations to compete in the generated AI arms race. The market analyst said that it can reach $ 1 trillion in ten years.
OpenAI’s board of directors wrote in a blog post last month: “The major companies now invest in hundreds of billions of dollars developed by AI development, showing what OpenAI continues to execute the task.”
The valuation of private investors is $ 157 billion. In the second half of 2022, the company launched the ChatGPT Chatbopt 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 Anthropic.
At the same time, a Chinese competitor is exploding in Deepseek, the United States. This is an AI entrepreneurial laboratory from China. I 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.
Openai CEO Sam Altman describes the R1 model of Deepseek as “impressive” and Write on X “Obviously, we will provide better models, and legal people can have a new competitor!”
SoftBank did not immediately respond to the comments request.
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