According to Bloomberg, two informed sources revealed that the AI industry giant OpenAI was negotiating with investors on the sale of potential stocks, with company valuations or up to a staggering $50 billion. The negotiations are still at an early stage, and the transaction will involve a secondary sale of shares by the current and former employees of OpenAI. According to the source, the current investor of OpenAI, Thrive Capital, may have taken over the trade.
Since the introduction of ChatGPT, a chat robot, at the end of 2022 and the rapid establishment of its leadership role in the generation of AI, OpenAI ‘ s valuation has continued to rise sharply. In March this year, the company announced the completion of a $40 billion financing round, valued at $300 billion, the largest amount so far raised by private science and technology companies. Last week, OpenAI announced the latest $8.3 billion in funding associated with the above-mentioned funding cycle.
In terms of business outreach and technology dissemination, OpenAI released this Tuesday the first two “open-weight” language models since the launch of GPT-2 in 2019. The company indicated that the models were designed to provide developers and researchers with low-cost options to operate and customize the models.
In addition, OpenAI revealed earlier this week that its flagship product ChatGPT ‘ s weekly active users are about to break the 700 million mark. At the same time, Anthropic, the main competitor of OpenAI, is also negotiating a new round of financing led by Iconiq Capital, with a target of $3 billion to $5 billion, with a potential estimate of $170 billion. This represents a significant leap forward from its $61.5 billion valuation in March this year.
As previously reported by CNBC, OpenAI ‘ s annual recurrent income is expected to exceed $20 billion by the end of the year, well above the $10 billion reported in June this year.
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