{"id":2666,"date":"2025-01-31T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/openai-in-talks-for-40b-raise-at-340b-valuation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T10:39:09","slug":"openai-in-talks-for-40b-raise-at-340b-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/openai-in-talks-for-40b-raise-at-340b-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI in talks for $40B raise at $340B valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite having billions of dollars in its bank account, OpenAI is preparing to raise billions more, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WSJ states that OpenAI is in talks to secure up to $40 billion in a funding round that would value the startup at $340 billion. SoftBank would lead the round, investing between $15 billion to $25 billion into the ChatGPT maker, as per The WSJ.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mobile ad-unit--has-placeholder ad-unit--display wp-block-tc-ads-ad-slot has-background has-gray-100-background-color\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--desktop ad-unit--native wp-block-tc-ads-ad-slot\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If OpenAI successfully closes the round, it would be a remarkable achievement for the startup, which was valued at $157 billion in October. The WSJ notes that OpenAI would use the capital to fund its money-losing business operations and fulfill its commitment to Stargate, its ambitious project to build AI data centers across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, OpenAI reportedly incurred a loss of around $5 billion against revenues of $3.7 billion. The losses could potentially increase. In conjunction with partners including SoftBank, OpenAI aims to contribute billions of dollars to Stargate to initiate the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/01\/30\/openai-said-to-be-in-talks-to-raise-40b-at-a-340b-valuation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having billions of dollars in its bank account, OpenAI is preparing to raise billions more, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ states that OpenAI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[65,329,120,270,164,229,330],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ai","tag-funding","tag-generative-ai","tag-in-brief","tag-openai","tag-report","tag-startup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1778704897.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}