April 1 News.OpenAI This morning, the new round is announcedFinancingThe scale of the financing amounted to $122.0 billion and the company ' s valuation after the completion of the financing was $852.0 billion。
This round is financed by the AmazonNvidiaandSoftBankCo-leading, in which soft silver is co-directed with accounts under a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG and T. Rowe Price. Microsoft continues to participate and vote as a long-term partner。
It is a matter of concern that OpenAI opened its participation to individual investors for the first time, raising more than $3 billion through banking channels。
With regard to the use of funds, OpenAI indicated that it would continue to invest heavily in the procurement of AI chips, the construction of data centres and the recruitment of top talent。
In terms of business data, OpenAI disclosed that ChatGPT is currently close to 900 million active users per week, with more than 50 million paid subscribers, and that the number of active users per month is expected to exceed 1 billion. The company ' s monthly income has reached $2 billion, and the business ' share of total income exceeds 40%。
The API platform handles more than 15 billion tokens per minute, Codex has more than 2 million active users per week, five times the increase over the last three months, and the monthly ring is increasing at a rate of more than 701 TP3T。