OpenAI announced the completion of a new round of financing, with a pre-money valuation of US$730 billion and a total financing of US$110 billion. This includes SoftBank’s investment of US$30 billion, Nvidia’s investment of US$30 billion, and Amazon’s investment of US$50 billion.
OpenAI stated that it has reached a strategic cooperation with Amazon and finalized next-generation inference computing power support with NVIDIA. As this round of financing progresses, more financial investors are expected to join.
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More than 9 million paying enterprise users rely on ChatGPT to carry out their work. Start-ups, large enterprises and government agencies are developing on the OpenAI platform to reshape the design, delivery and operation models of their products and services.
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The valuation after this round of financing has increased the value of the OpenAI Foundation’s shares in OpenAI Group to more than US$180 billion.