OpenAI near treating that stock company at $ 300 billion

Operai will complete a fund collection agreement of $ 40 billion that almost doubles the valuation of the high -profile company of only four months ago.

The new fund collection round, directed by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank, values ​​OpenAi at $ 300 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the agreement that spoke under condition of anonymity. The agreement would make Openai one of the most valuable private companies in the world, along with the company of Cometes Spacex and Bytedance, the Tiktok manufacturer.

SoftBank will invest up to $ 40 billion in OpenAI and syndicate the agreement, with other investors that provide approximately a quarter of the total number of funds, people said. That figure would be an increase of $ 15 billion of a total that was discussed a week ago.

CNBC previously reported About investment conversations.

The agreement shows that investors are still optimistic about the leaders of the artificial intelligence market such as OpenAI, despite the fall of the United States financial markets at the end of last month after a Chinese company called Deepseek rival technology revealed .

In December, Depseek said that he had built one of the world's most powerful systems using much less computer chips than many experts believed possible. The predominant wisdom had been that only companies such as Openai, who spent tens of billions of dollars to train their ai technologies using tens of thousands of specialized chips, could build the most powerful systems.

Deepseek built its technology with only 2,000 chips and spent only around $ 6 million in unprocessed computer energy.

But many in the field believe that companies with access to the greatest computer power will continue to lead the market. At the end of last month, Openai and Softbank joined Oracle in an agreement to spend $ 100 billion in erecting new computer data centers in the United States that will be used to build ai, President Trump announced the agreement on his second day in office.

(The New York Times has sued Openai and his partner, Microsoft, claiming the infraction of copyright of the news content related to ai systems. The two companies have denied the claims of the lawsuit).