According to the three people who are familiar with negotiations, Openai, a San Francisco artificial intelligence company, who has been involved in the frenzy of many years, has a up to $ 25 billion investment with Japanese Konglomalite Softbank.
People said that some of the money could be used to cover Openai commitment to Stargate, a $ 100 billion data center project announced last week. However, money is separated from the investment that SoftBank has already included in the project.
The source of the information that demanded anonymity because the consultation was confidential emphasized that discussions on investment conditions are still in progress. People who are familiar with negotiations stated that this transaction could value Openai in nearly $ 250 billion, and another person has rated $ 340 billion. According to CB Insights, which tracks the startup, a larger person is the second most valuable private company in the world behind Elon Musk's SpaceX, next to Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Stargate, SoftBank, Openai, and Software Company Oracle, states that it could invest $ 500 billion in computing infrastructure.
Negotiations were previously reported by Financial Times.
Openai launched the AI boom in late 2022 with the release of the online chatbot ChatGpt. However, the company has been a very turbulent year since then.
About a year after Chatgpt was released, the executives are still trying to restore Openai's reputation after the Board of Directors unexpectedly fired Sam Altman, the highest executive officer. He revived five days later, but since then, Openai has lost several famous employees, including ILYA SUTSKEVER, Chief Scientist.
In October, Openai completed a $ 6.6 billion financing agreement and was evaluated as $ 157 billion, almost twice the evaluation of famous companies just nine months ago. SoftBank was part of the contract.
In December, Openai announced a new AI technology called Openai O3. Shortly thereafter, a very well -known Chinese company called DeepSeek has shocked the high -tech industry in the release of AI systems that may match the major AI products made in the United States.
Chinese companies stated that they have built a new AI technology in a lower price with a smaller computer chip than the US competitors, and has challenged the entire industry that a larger and better AI costs billions of dollars. I did it. Openai said on Wednesday that Deepseek was investigating whether it had inappropriately harvested Openai data to build its own system.
(New York Times complains of Openai and his partner, Microsoft, accused them of copyright infringement of news content related to AI Systems. Openai and Microsoft denied these claims.)
Since Deepseek claims that AI can be built at a more reasonable price, he has been questioning the wisdom of investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a new data center. However, many experts believe that large amounts of computing power will continue to provide market advantage to companies like Openai.
With more chips, you can explore new ways to build artificial intelligence. In other words, more chips can give companies a technical and competitive advantage. Operating a new “reasoning” AI model like OPENAI O3 requires more chips. These require more computing power when people and companies use them.
Erin Griffith has contributed to the report.
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