Openai talks with investors about sale of shares at $ 500 billion

Openai is negotiating with investors on potential shares in estimating approximately $ 500 billion, according to two sources who know the case.

Negotiations are held in the early stages and will provide secondary sale with stocks sold by the current and former employees, they said that people who asked him not to be named because discussions are confidential. According to sources.

Bloomberg first reported on recent conversations.

The Openai assessment was on a constant rise, as launching artificial intelligence launched the chat at the end of 2022 and quickly established itself as a leader in the generative II. The company has announced Funding for $ 40 billion In March, in March, $ 300 billion is certainly the largest amount that was raised by a private technology company.

Last week Openai announced its last 8.3 billion dollars tranche tied to this round of funding.

Openai released two Language models with open weight Tuesday for the first time since then GPT-2 In 2019. Models aimed at serving options with a lower cost that developers And researchers can easily run and adjust, Openai said.

The company said that the Chatgpt was going to reach 700 million active users weekly earlier this week.

Open competitor AnthropMeanwhile, negotiating to provide 3 to $ 5 billion of new financing, under the guidance Iconiq Capital With a potential estimate of $ 170 billion compared to $ 61.5 billion in March.

Earlier, CNBC reported that Openai’s annual profit is forecast to $ 20 billion in the year, which increased compared to $ 10 billion in June.

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