OpenAI was recently revealed to be in talks to sell its shares, and its valuation soared to $90 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, OpenAI is actively negotiating a share transfer with an external investment institution, and the share transfer price of this transaction is much higher than the level two months ago. The news puts OpenAI's valuation at $80 billion to $90 billion, making it one of the world's most highly valued unlisted companies.
At the end of last year, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a high-profile AI chat and writing tool, which further sparked strong interest in AI companies from investment institutions, driving OpenAI's valuation to climb. ChatGPT has the ability to write articles, have fluent conversations, and answer questions based on keyword information entered by users, and its performance is becoming more and more intelligent and closer to the human level, making artificial intelligence a hot field in the technology industry.
OpenAI, based in San Francisco, reportedly said that if the stock transfer transaction goes through, it will be the second time in OpenAI's history that it has traded its existing shares on the secondary market. Earlier this year, OpenAI privately issued $300 million worth of shares in the secondary market, valuing the company at $30 billion based on the offering price.
The secondary market is a venue for unlisted companies to trade stocks, and in the United States, unlisted companies, including SpaceX, often choose to trade stocks in the secondary market to achieve cashing out or exiting from employees and investment institutions. However, this share transaction does not mean that the unlisted company will raise new capital, it is only a transaction of issued shares.
Earlier this year, OpenAI raised $10 billion from major shareholder Microsoft, mainly to develop new products and train artificial intelligence large-language models. In addition, OpenAI's competitors, such as startups such as Inflection and Anthropic, have also received funding from some big-name investors in recent months.
Despite the news of the share transfer and the rise in valuations, OpenAI has not yet commented on this. However, the outcome of this negotiation is expected to have a significant impact on OpenAI and the AI field as a whole.
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