Openai is looking for The capital of modern and existing investors, two people familiar with the company’s plans inform Wired. Efforts of obtaining funds are part of a round worth $ 40 billion announced in March. The round will be opened again on Monday, July 28, according to one of the sources, which has direct knowledge about collecting funds.
Round $ 40 billion Announced at the beginning of this year She brought the valuation of Opennai to $ 300 billion, which makes it one of the most valued private startups in history. The round was run by the Japanese Softbank investment conglomerate, which committed 75 percent of complete financing to bring. The initial tranche was $ 10 billion, from $ 7.5 billion from Softbank and another $ 2.5 billion from the Syndicate of other investors. Opeli is currently collecting the last 30 billion dollars, from USD 22.5 with Softbank and 7.5 USD from the Syndicate of other investors.
Softbank commitment You can cut Up to $ 10 billion, if OpenAI did not restructure until the end of the year, Wired confirmed.
According to PitchBook, Opeli has collected a total of $ 63.92 billion since the establishment of the company in 2015. Its supporters include a wide range of institutional and individual investors, including Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Funders Fund, Thrive Capital, Coatue Management, Nvidia and Reid Hoffman. Microsoft and OpenNai relations are closely related, and Microsoft provides OpenAI huge amounts of cloud processing resources, and OpenAI gives the exclusive access of Microsoft to its best models – although it has been recently reported that their relationship has complications.
Opeli also cooperates with Softbank, among others in the four -year AI Data Center project, in which it is expected to invest $ 500 billion. The Wall Street Journal Previously reported this week That both entities were contrary to some aspects of the partnership, including where to build data centers, and that the general director of Opeli, Altman himself, performs movements to sign offers for data centers balanced by Stargate without a Japanese company.
In a joint statement sent by Kristin Schwarz, a global head of marketing and communication at Softbank Investment Advisers, Softbank and OpenAi said: “Stargate’s commitment by $ 500 billion in the construction of 10 GW new computational abilities in the United States Hyper and speed to provide AI infrastructure, which will feed the future and serve humanity. “
The structure of Opeli was also a competition point and launched Elon Musk, who helped launch a research laboratory with a mission of human protection against artificial general intelligence or Agi. After Musk left the company’s management at the beginning of 2018, Opeli created a profit -oriented arm, partly to facilitate the collection of funds. Last year, Musk sued Opeli for the alleged abandonment of the original mission and said that the company “is not only developing, but decorated with agi to maximize profits for Microsoft, and not in favor of humanity.”
In May, Opeli proposed a modern structure that maintains a non-profit organization under the control of the company and converts its current subsidiary for profit into a public corporation of benefits. This modern non -profit organization would maintain shares in PBC, and PBC would theoretically be designed to establish returns priorities for shareholders while implementing projects with clear public benefits. The SoftBank investment at OpenAI depends on this modern structure approved by the General Prosecutors in California and at Delaware at the beginning of next year.
Additional reports Kylie Robison and Zoë Schiffer.
Update 22.12.25 15:10 EST: This story has been updated with OPENAI and Softbank’s joint statement.