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Tiger Global is planning to join OpenAI’s buzzy new round of financing, which would value the artificial intelligence startup at more than $150 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Thrive Capital led the round and plans to invest $1 billion. Microsoft, NVIDIA and apple yes It is said We are also negotiating to join.
information First to report Tiger Global’s participation in the project.
Earlier this year, it was reported that OpenAI was valued at $80 billion, up from $29 billion last year. Annualized revenue was reported to have exceeded $2 billion earlier this year.
The company started growing in late 2022 after launching the ChatGPT chatbot. This momentum continues with the expansion of new OpenAI products for enterprises and AI-generated photos and videos. According to OpenAI, the company’s number of weekly active users has doubled from the end of last year to 200 million.
The news comes one day after OpenAI released o1, a preview of its new artificial intelligence model focused on reasoning and “solving hard problems.” Prior to this, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined representatives from Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Amazon Join several U.S. power and utility companies at the White House to discuss the future of U.S. artificial intelligence energy infrastructure
The group also discussed bringing the public and private sectors together to discuss energy use for artificial intelligence, data center capacity, semiconductor manufacturing and grid capacity, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.
A spokesperson for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
—CNBC’s Kate Rooney contributed reporting.
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