Openai talks to investors about selling shares when rating $ 500 billion

Openai holds talks with investors on the sale of potential shares in an evaluation of about $ 500 billion, according to two sources familiar with this issue.

The people, who requested the name “talks”, said in the early stages and will include a secondary sale with the shares sold by current and former employees. The sources said that Thrive Capital, an investor in Openai, could lead the possible tour.

Bloomberg was the first to report the latest talks.

Openai’s evaluation was in a state of continuous rise since Startup Intelligence Startup Chatgpt launched in late 2022 and soon established itself as a leader in artificial intelligence. The company announced $ 40 billion financing A March tour of $ 300 billion, to a large extent, the largest amount has ever collected by a private technical company.

Last week, Openai announced the latest 8.3 billion dollars slide It is linked to that funding tour.

Openai released two Open weight language models On Tuesday for the first time since it appeared GPT-2 In 2019, models aim to work as low -cost options Developers Openai said that researchers can run and customize easily.

The company said earlier this week that Chatgpt was about to reach 700 million active users per week.

An open competitor manAnd at the same time, there are talks to secure between 3 billion and 5 billion dollars in new financing led by iconiq Capital With a possible rating of $ 170 billion, an increase of $ 61.5 billion in March.

CNBC previously reported that Openai’s repeated annual revenues are expected to reach $ 20 billion by the end of the year, up from $ 10 billion in June.

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