The valuation of Chatgpt developer OpenAI rose to a charts of $ 500 billion in a deal for employees to sell a limited number of shares, financial media reported on Thursday.
If confirmed, the sale of OpenAI employees of a reported $ 6.6 billion in investors would make the company the most valuable startup in the world, so that Elon Musks Rocket Company caught in – with a value of around $ 400 billion, Bloomberg.
A couple of investors picking up the shares were the Japanese investment giant Softbank, reported the Financial Times and Bloomberg, those who are familiar with the transaction.
The French spokespersons of OpenAi refused to comment on the reports when contacted by AFP, while the American press office did not immediately respond to a request for comments. Softbank refused to comment on the reports.
Softbank known for setting up bets on technology, Softbank had already promised to plow $ 40 billion in OpenAI by the end of 2025 if the startup met certain conditions.
The March dealing that the American company appreciated $ 300 billion, less than three years after the flagship Chatbot chatgpt surprised the audience with his ability to generate convincing text reactions.
Other investors cited by the FT and Bloomberg on Thursday were, among other things, venture capital companies thrive Capital and Dragoneer and Abu Dhabi’s AI Investment Company MGX.
In the first six months of 2025, OpenAi attracted around $ 4.3 billion in income, specialized exhaust the information reported this week.
But just like other generative AI developers, OpenAI has the hundreds of billions of expenses in the coming years to build the computer infrastructure needed to develop and exploit its services.
Some industry observers expressed concern last week when receiving an investment promise worth a maximum of $ 100 billion from Chipgigant Nvidia.
Once known for PC gaming hardware, NVIDIA has risen to become the world’s most valuable company, worth around $ 4.5 trillion, on the back of the generative AI tree, with many of the software performed on its graphic processing units (GPUs).
Nvidia -Chef Jensen Huang has assigned some of the cash of the company to companies that buy its own products, including OpenAI and Cloud Computing providers such as CoreWeave.
But although some have marked such deals as possible warning signals from a bubble in the generative AI sector, investors continue to stack up – with OpenAI Rival Anthropic who yielded $ 13 billion last month in a rating of $ 183 billion.
