OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Known for its groundbreaking “GPT” series and the viral success of ChatGPT, the company focuses on developing increasingly capable and safe AI systems. By pioneering large-scale language models and multimodal integration, OpenAI remains at the forefront of the global race toward transformative AI.
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise as much as $30 billion from SoftBank, a move that would significantly deepen the investor’s commitment to playing a central role in the evolution of artificial intelligence. This capital is expected to be part of a broader funding effort to secure at least $50 billion, bringing OpenAI’s valuation to a staggering range of $750 billion to $830 billion.
OpenAI, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, was founded in 2015 by Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, and Wojciech Zaremba. In 2019, the company joined the unicorn club. As OpenAI scales toward its “Stargate” data center initiatives and the pursuit of AGI, these historic infusions of capital highlight the strategic necessity of securing a dominant position within the global technology sector.
