Opeli sold $ 6.6 billion in shares held by current and former employees, in accordance with the recent report with Bloomberg. Sales exceeded the total valuation of OPENNAI to $ 500 billion, at the highest achieved by a private company. The report said that the buyer is Softbank, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, MGX and T. Rowe Price.
Sales weren’t a conventional funding round, because money went to people with shares or options at OpenAI, not the company’s own cassettes. However, this is a powerful retention tool for the company, which was a significant pressure from the newly revitalized AI META laboratory. This summer, Meta costs at least seven best engineers from OpenAI, often luring them with bonuses signing many million dollars.
The latest Openai financing round took place in August, when it finished collecting funds value $ 40 billion with a valuation of $ 300 billion. Softbank, Thrive, T. Rowe Price and Dragoneer were also investors in this round, in addition to private equity, corresponding to Blackstone and TPG, and the primary investment capital, corresponding to the Fund Fund, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
Sales are also a reminder of OpenAI’s ability to acquire money if mandatory – a particularly essential resource, taking into account the ambitious plans of the company’s infrastructure. Opeli has committed $ 300 billion at the Oracle Cloud Services in the next five years, which significantly exceeds current revenues or reserves. However, the powerful rush of the company’s funds suggests that it is not as bizarre as standard arithmetic would indicate. In September, Nvidia announced a plan Invest $ 100 billion in OPENAI As part of the strategic infrastructure partnership.
New sales appear only a few weeks A non -binding contract between OpenAI and Microsoftwhich many considered a conversion of OpenAI conversion into a profit -oriented unit. However, OPENAI’s conversion has not yet been confirmed in court, and recent sales may cause significant complications if the conversion is not continued as planned.
Opeli continues and introduces products into the blisters, releasing its latest Sora 2 video model and accompanying social channels at the starting of this week. The company reported $ 4.3 billion in the first half of 2025, burning $ 2.5 billion in money.