Openai CEO Sam Altman will give a lecture on the SoftBank CEO Masayoshi’s son on January 21, 2025 at the Roos Belt Room in Washington’s White House.
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CNBC has confirmed that Openai is discussing up to $ 40 billion in a fund raising a 340 billion dollar rating to $ 340 billion.
According to two people who are familiar with negotiations who have asked for no name because the talks are in progress, Masayoshi’s son Softbank leads the round between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion. Contributed. SoftBank exceeds Microsoft As a top backer of Openai.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the lecture.
Some of the funds may be used for Openai commitment to STARGATE, Softbank, Open, and Oracle’s joint venture, which was introduced last week by President Donald Trump. The plan calls for billions of dollars in US AI infrastructure.
Openai was finally evaluated by private investors to $ 157 billion. In the latter half of 2022, the company launched Chatgpt chatbots and started a boom of generated AI. Openai closed the latest $ 6.6 billion round in October and prepared to actively compete with ELON MUSK’s XAI, Microsoft and Microsoft. Google,, Amazon And humanity.
Meanwhile, China’s Startup Lab Deepseek has exploded in the United States and offers fresh competition with Openai. Deepseek has seen that the app has risen to the top of the Apple’s App Store ranking this week, and has expanded the US market based on a report that its powerful model was trained at a half of the US competitors. I did it.
At an event at Washington DC sponsored by Openai, CEO Sam Altman stated that Deepseek is an obviously wonderful model.
“This reminds me of the level of competition and the need to win a democratic AL,” he said. He also pointed out that he pointed out “the level of interest in inference and the level of interest in open source.”
