Openai has closed a new and huge financing round with which to boost your business model. Led by the Japanese SoftBank (investor in companies such as Uber or Alibaba), the round of 40,000 million dollars (about 37,000 million euros) becomes The greatest in historyabove that received by Elon Musk Spacex in 2023 ($ 13,300m). This operation raises the company's valuation to 300,000 million dollars, settling Openai as the third largest world unicorn, only behind Space X and Bytedance, the Tiktok matrix.
According to the information advanced by Reuters, La Ronda It will be divided into two phases: 10,000 million dollars in mid -April and the remaining 30,000 million in December.
»Today we announce a new financing round: 40,000 million dollars with an assessment after investment of 300,000 million dollars, which allows us to follow expanding the limits of artificial intelligence researchclimb our computational infrastructure and offer increasingly powerful tools for 500 million people They use chatgpt every week, ”the company explained in a statement.
«We are excited to collaborate with SoftBank Group: few companies understand as well how to climb transformative technologies like them. Your support will help us continue building artificial intelligence systems that promote scientific discovery, make a personalized education, enhance human creativity and Allane the road to a general AI (AGI) that benefits all humanity ».
A millionaire history
Throughout the History of OpenAi Millionaire investment rounds have been a constant, driven by actors as relevant as Microsoft, Ycomombinator or SoftBank itself. These rounds include the first of them (2015), valued at $ 1 billion in commitments and in which outstanding figures of the technological sector participated, such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman (President of and Combinator at that time and current CEO of OpenAI) or Peter Thiel (Paypal co -founder).
In 2019, it repeated quantity, with another 1 billion dollars contributed by Microsoft, and which was key to laying the future bases of collaboration between both companies, the integration of Chatgpt in Azure and the development of the different conversational models that were to come. In January 2023 Microsoft would invest again in the company, but this time the amount would increase (and much) to 10,000 million dollars. Finally, in 2024 OpenAI raised 6,600 million dollars from Thrive Capital, Microsoft, Nvidia and Softbank, among others.
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