OpenAI talks with investors about share sale at $500 billion valuation

Openai, according to two sources with information on the subject, investors are discussing about $ 500 billion about a potential stock sale.

Negotiations said it would include a secondary sales with the stocks sold in the early stages and by existing and existing employees. The sources said Thrive Capital, an investor in Openai, could lead a potential round.

Bloomberg was the first report on the first talks.

Openai’s valuation has been on the rise since the beginning of the artificial intelligence on the market at the end of 2022, and has established itself as a leader in AI in a rapidly productive AI. In March, a financing tour of $ 40 billion of $ 300 billion in March announced the largest amount of a private technology company.

Last week, Openai announced that it connected the last $ 8.3 billion slice to this financing tour.

Openai has released two open weight linguistic models for the first time on Tuesday since it launched the GPT-2 in 2019. Models aim to serve as lower cost options that developers and researchers can easily work and customize.

The company said that at the beginning of this week, Chatgpt was about to hit 700 million active users per week.

Meanwhile, Openai rival Antropic is directed by Iconiq Capital and will provide a new financing of $ 3 billion to 5 billion dollars with a potential of $ 170 billion at $ 61.5 billion in March.

Openai’s annual revenue of Openai will increase from $ 10 billion to 20 billion dollars in June in June.

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