Openai has just raised $ 40 billion in funding

Openai is expected to receive $ 10 billion in advance (SoftBank will invest $ 7.5 billion with $ 2.5 billion “an investor union,” according to Bloomberg). The remaining $ 30 billion should arrive by the end of the year, CNBC Reported – but only if it is officially transformed into a for -profit company by then. Otherwise, it should lose a quarter of the agreement.

Funding comes just a few months after Openai announced Stargate, a joint venture of $ 500 billion with the support of SoftBank, Oracle and Fund Abu Dhabi MGX to develop massive IA data centers in the next four years. The company has been in a complete sprint lately: Monday, CEO Sam Altman published that Optai had won 1 million users in one hour largely thanks to a new feature called images in Chatgpt which has become viral due to its ability to produce the Inspired AI Art studio. Altman also announced Wednesday that the company “would publish a new powerful open language model with reasoning in the coming months”. The financing announcement claims that Chatgpt serves 500 million people each week.

Despite the explosive growth that the startup has seen thanks to Chatgpt, it always burns a tonne in cash. Bloomberg Recently, the startup expected to gain $ 12.7 billion in revenues this year only, which represents a massive leap compared to the $ 3.7 billion which he gained in recurring annualized income last year. However, the report says Openai does not expect to be positive in cash before 2029, when its projections predict a huge 125 billion dollars in income.

Openai’s financing announcement underlined the startup’s goal of building “AGE which benefits all of humanity”. Altman was clear that he will take a plot To achieve all of this – compusing, energy, global infrastructure, and yes, an amazing amount of money. This tour, says the startup, brings him a step closer.