OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B
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·March 31, 2025paxys
Of course it's SoftBank..
metadat
Currently on front page:
New funding to build towards AGI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540477
reaperducer
With a $300,000,000,000 valuation, I think we can stop calling it a "start up."
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cpursley
How much will be used for lobbying against Deepseek and the like (i.e., buying anti-competitive laws aka cronyism)?
Seems like the right people are in Federal power one who has his own AI company, scare the main guy about the "Communist Chinese", etc.
batata_frita
Wait, WHAT!?
What about the stargate 500Bi?
Seriously, I can't understand. Are these investors fool or what?
comrade1234
> 300B.
lol. Yeah ok. Meanwhile I can use deepseek under the Berkeley license with minimal hardware locally and not have to offload my content to you who will just incorporate it into your model.
WhatsName
Until they lobby to make it illegal, because [safety, piracy, national security] concerns...
bashfulpup
Eh, can you really though?
Let's be real if OAI is losing money on a 200$ subscription with hyper advanced effeciency methods are you really going to save money?
You should also enjoy the free VC money while it lasts. Just like cheap uber rides were great until the vc money dried up.
I've hosted and run a lot of large LLM experiments myself. You are in no way "saving" money doing so. It's also a giant pain to be avoided if possible.
Best thing to do right now is enjoy the cheap AI and when the free money stops use the winning mature open source platform.
tomashertus
But can you Ghibli? I guess NOT! /s
$40B goes in... and what comes out we'll all see. _Something_ definitely will.