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OpenAI nears record-breaking $40bn funding deal as valuation doubles

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Openai, the ChatGPT maker, conducted in discussions to raise approximately $ 40 billion in new financing – doubling its evaluation at an altitude of $ 340 billion, according to reports.

The value of the company, which is based in San Francisco, reached $ 157 billion in October, when it received $ 6.6 billion of investment. Microsoft has led a previous round of financing with a total of $ 10 billion, and has merged Openai technology into a group of desktop products and significantly enhancing AI’s Cookie.

According to the discussions reported by the Wall Street Journal for the first time, Softbank is preparing to lead the new round with a direct investment between 15 billion dollars and 25 billion dollars. Part of the funds would nourish Openai’s commitment to Stargate – a joint project between Oracle, Openai and SoftBank – which allocated up to $ 500 billion to help the United States maintain a competitive advantage over China in the area of ​​artificial intelligence. Softbank’s additional share will come at the top of $ 15 billion that it has already pledged to Stargate.

It was founded in 2015 as non -profit by Sam Altman, 39, Elon Musk, 53, etc., Openai in 2019 to a “profit covered” model. MUSK left in 2018 due to potential conflicts with AI’s Tesla ambitions. In the era of Altman, Openai has grown to become one of the most private companies in the world and a central power in the race to market artificial intelligence tools that work in large language models.

However, competition is in height. This week, Deepseek has claimed the start of the Chinese AI running that it has developed R1, which is Chatbot Chatgpt, in a small part of the cost. “The R1 Deepseek is an impressive model, especially about what they can offer for the price,” Altman admitted to X (previously Twitter).

On Wednesday, Openai said that he was investigating whether Deepseek had “distorted our models inappropriately.” He added: “We are taking aggressive and proactive counter measures to protect our technology and we will continue to work closely with the United States government to protect the most capable models that are built here.”

Openai did not respond to a request for comment on the new funding round.

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