{"id":28300,"date":"2025-02-08T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=28300"},"modified":"2025-02-08T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T02:32:00","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6%e5%8d%b3%e5%b0%86%e5%ae%8c%e6%88%90%e5%af%b9-openai-%e7%9a%84-400-%e4%ba%bf%e7%be%8e%e5%85%83%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84%ef%bc%8c%e8%b6%85%e8%b6%8a%e5%be%ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/28300.html","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank close to completing $40 billion investment in OpenAI, surpassing Microsoft as biggest moneymaker, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNBC, the source said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [softbank]]\" target=\"_blank\" >SoftBank<\/a>is nearing completion of its review of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [OpenAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenAI<\/a> The $40 billion (note: currently around RMB 291.518 billion) major investment has a pre-investment valuation of $260 billion (currently around RMB 1.89 trillion).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28301\" title=\"9e44d1e7j00srcewe00aid000ok00cap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9e44d1e7j00srcewe00aid000ok00cap.jpg\" alt=\"9e44d1e7j00srcewe00aid000ok00cap\" width=\"884\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SoftBank will disburse the funds over the next 12 to 24 months.<strong>That means OpenAI has a post-investment valuation of $300 billion.<\/strong>(currently about RMB 2.19 trillion), with the first payment due as soon as spring.<\/p>\n<p>Following this investment, the<strong>SoftBank to overtake Microsoft as largest investor in OpenAI<\/strong>Previously, in October 2024, OpenAI was valued at $157 billion by private investors. Previously, in October 2024, OpenAI was valued at $157 billion by private investors. The funding round was initially expected to value OpenAI at $340 billion, but sources later said it was closer to $300 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the funds will go towards OpenAI's investment in the Stargate program, a joint venture announced in January 2025 between SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle. The new company will invest $500 billion (currently about 3.64 trillion yuan) over the next four years to build new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNBC, the source claims that soft silver is about to complete a major investment of $40 billion in OpenAI (note: currently about 291.518 billion yuan), with a pre-investment valuation of $26 billion (currently about 1.8 trillion yuan). The soft money will be disbursed within the next 12 to 24 months, which means that the post-investment valuation of OpenAI is $30 billion (currently about RMB 2.19 trillion), with the first payment being made in the spring at the earliest. With this investment, soft silver will go beyond Microsoft becoming the largest investor in OpenAI. Until October 2024, OpenAI ' s private investors valued it at $157 billion. Original<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[190,1253],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-28300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-openai","tag-1253"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28300"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=28300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}