OpenAI, one of the most important players in the world of artificial intelligence, has started negotiations with investors for a huge financing tour aiming to raise its company valuation to $ 340 billion. According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), OpenAI is aiming to invest up to $ 40 billion in this financing round. In this process, the Japanese technology giant Softbank is expected to lead the process by investing between $ 15 to $ 25 billion.
If this financing tour is completed successfully, the total valuation of OpenAI will rise from $ 157 billion to $ 340 billion in October last year. This means that the company increases its valuation in just a few months more than twice. The capital increase will help OpenAI to increase its competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and to invest especially in large -scale infrastructure projects.
One of the biggest goals of OpenAI in this financing tour is to implement the Stargate project, which is a network of advanced artificial intelligence data centers planned to be built throughout the United States. According to WSJ, the company aims to increase its capacity to calculate artificial intelligence by investing billions of dollars in the Stargate project and strengthen its independence.
Although OpenAI is known as a company that Microsoft is the largest investor, it aims to reduce its dependence on Microsoft by recently agreeing with different investors. As a result, OpenAI plans to develop its chips and continues to cooperate with different cloud service providers such as Oracle. The gradual decrease in Microsoft’s influence on OpenAI is considered part of the company’s strategy for reaching a wider range of investors.
OpenAI closed 2024 with damage
Looking at the OpenAI’s financial picture, it was stated that it generates approximately $ 3.7 billion in 2024, but despite this, it announced that it was around 5 billion dollars. High operational costs and large -scale investments cause the company to write losses. It is stated that the funds to be obtained with the new financing tour will be used to balance damage operations and to accelerate future growth plans.
If Softbank leads to this investment tour, it will be one of the biggest impact on OpenAI. In fact, this investment can make Softbank the largest financial supporter of OpenAI and reduce Microsoft’s weight on the company.
On the other hand, large investments in the artificial intelligence sector show how fast the sector has grown and that large technology companies are ready to make billions of dollars of investments to increase competition in this field. OpenAI’s financing tour is thought to be an important turning point in the artificial intelligence ecosystem. The moves of the company in the coming period may increase its impact on industry.