Openai’s assessment has increased to $ 500 billion after a sale of secondary shares of $ 6.6 billionBriefly making it the most valuable startup in the world before Spacex and Bytedance. Associated Press reports: The current and previous employees of OpenAI sold $ 6.6 billion in shares to a group of investors, which bears the valuation of the private artificial intelligence company to $ 500 billion, according to a source with knowledge of the agreement that was not authorized to discuss it publicly. The investors who bought the shares included Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group and T. Rowe Price, along with the Japanese technological giant Softbank and the MGX of the United Arab Emirates, said the source on Thursday.
The assessment reflects high expectations for the future of AI technology and continues Openai’s remarkable trajectory since its inception as a non -profit research laboratory in 2015. But with the company with the headquarters in San Francisco that does not win the profits, they could also amplify the concerns about a generative bubble if the generative products of AI made by Openai and its competitors do not meet the expectations of Investor investors in the research and development tickets of AI.
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