OpenAI Raises $300 Million in Share Sale, Fuels Buzz in Generative AI Space
ChatGPT's Parent Company OpenAI Valued at $27-$29 Billion in Latest Funding
1 May 2023
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Kunal Tyagi
With a valuation of between $27 billion and $29 billion, OpenAI generated more than $300 million through the sale of shares.
Addition of fresh shares, venture capital firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz now own more than 30% of OpenAI.
The company has worked with Microsoft to integrate OpenAI's APIs with its Azure infrastructure and offers generative AI systems including ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Whisper AI.
The conversational AI model ChatGPT's creator, OpenAI, raised more than $300 million through the sale of shares. A $27 billion to $29 billion value range for the most recent financing. According to paperwork, new shares have been purchased by venture capitalists (VC) like Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, K2 Global, and Founders Fund. According to sources, outside investors currently own more than 30% of OpenAI. The VC share acquisitions provide financial support because the offer still depends heavily on the company's valuation and the expanding ecosystem around its technology. Meanwhile, earlier this year, Microsoft invested around $10 billion in the startup.
It is noteworthy to note that generative AI systems like ChatGPT, which employ enormous pools of web data to generate text, graphics, and other content emulating human labor, have created a buzz in the tech world. The validity, integrity, and security of the results produced by generative AI, however, are subjects of concern. Despite these issues, the technology is still in its infancy and may have a long growth runway ahead of it.
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In addition to ChatGPT, OpenAI also offers Dall-E, an AI-based image-generation tool that underwent a big modification in July of last year. It also features the voice recognition model Whisper AI. Microsoft has worked to support the computing needs of the models by integrating OpenAI's APIs with its Azure infrastructure. In a move to challenge Google's search service supremacy, it also unveiled a GPT-4 integration to boost Bing.
Since its creation in 2015, OpenAI has been working tirelessly for seven years, and as a result, it is the closest thing to a winner in the field. Despite significant adjustments, such as a departure from its original non-profit model, OpenAI still commands some undeniable gravitas among its rivals. Numerous big and small companies have begun integrating GPT and ChatGPT into their goods and services, which has boosted the efforts of other major tech firms working on generative AI.
The tender offer, which is distinct from the Microsoft investment that concluded in January, has not received any reply from OpenAI as of yet. Investors should have already signed the term sheets and deposited the funds; OpenAI still needs to provide a countersignature. The investment was supposed to go public the following week.
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