OpenAI will complete a $ 40 billion fundraising deal that almost doubles the valuation of the high -profile company from just four months ago.
The new fundraising round, led by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank, appreciates $ 300 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the deal who spoke about the state of anonymity. The deal would make OpenAi one of the most valuable private companies in the world, together with the Rocket Company SpaceX and Bytedance, the maker of Tiktok.
Softbank invests up to $ 40 billion in OpenAI and will syndicate the deal, where other investors offer about a quarter of the total funds, the people said. That figure would be an increase of $ 15 billion compared to a total that was discussed a week ago.
CNBC previously reported on the investment interviews.
The deal shows that investors are still bullish about market leaders for artificial intelligence, such as OpenAi, despite the tumbling of the American financial markets at the end of last month after a Chinese company called Deepseek has unveiled Rival Technology.
In December Deepseek said that it had built one of the world's most powerful AI systems with the help of much less computer chips than many experts thought possible. The prevailing wisdom was that only companies such as OpenAi – who have spent dozens of billions of dollars to train their AI technologies with tens of thousands of specialized chips – could build the most powerful systems.
Deepseek built his technology with only 2,000 chips and spent only around $ 6 million on RAW Computing Power.
But many in the field believe that the companies will continue to lead the market with access to the most compensation. At the end of last month, OpenAi and Softbank joined Oracle in an agreement to spend $ 100 billion on establishing new computer data centers in the United States that will be used to build AI President Trump, the deal announced on its second day in function.
(The New York Times has sued OpenAi and his partner, Microsoft, and claims infringement of the copyright of news content with regard to AI systems. The two companies have denied the claims of the suit.)
