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OpenAI

AI research and deployment company building large language models and AI systems.

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Funding History

Sam Altman met with UAE investors to discuss a new funding round targeting approximately $50B at a $750–830B valuation. Talks described as early.

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to an additional $30B in OpenAI as part of a $100B round targeting an $830B post-money valuation. SoftBank already holds an 11% stake from a $22.5B investment in December.

Amazon in talks to invest over $10B in OpenAI, potentially above a $500B valuation, with OpenAI planning to use Trainium chips as part of the deal. Investment is in cash, not AWS credits, though OpenAI has separate $38B AWS spending commitments.

Disney invested $1B in OpenAI and granted a three-year license for AI-generated images and videos of 200 Disney characters, with a one-year exclusive period.

Disney invested $1B in OpenAI as part of a three-year licensing deal granting exclusive first-year rights for Sora to generate content using Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters. Disney also received warrants to buy more OpenAI stock at the current $500B valuation.

SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B–$25B in OpenAI as part of a $40B funding round valuing the company at up to $300B, nearly double its October 2024 valuation. SoftBank has also committed $18B toward Stargate separately.

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Interviews (41)

OpenAI acquires TBPN in deal that preserves editorial independence

AIUC launches the world's first AI insurance policy with ElevenLabs, underwriting hallucination risk and data leakage for enterprise AI agents

Sam Altman on Codex 5.3, the Frontier platform, and why every company is now an API company

OpenAI Codex launches macOS app: a companion to IDEs with adaptive thinking and multimodal input

Eric Seufert: ChatGPT's ad launch mirrors Netflix's slow start — the real question is how fast OpenAI can build a Meta-style ad stack

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil on AI solving open math problems and launching Prism to accelerate science

Ridge CEO Sean Frank: ChatGPT delivers $12 revenue per session — he'd be first in line for ads

SemiAnalysis's Doug O'Laughlin: Amazon's execution edge is why OpenAI chose AWS, space data centers are hype

Matt Levine: prediction markets are mostly sports betting, SpaceX IPO could suck oxygen from AI fundraising, private credit in AI isn't the 2008 scenario

Fidji Simo on GPT-5.2 and OpenAI's plan to become everyone's personal super-assistant

Bret Taylor on Sierra's 400-customer surge and publishing AI agents directly to ChatGPT

Satya Nadella live on TBPN: the OpenAI bet, AGI definitions, and Microsoft as a platform company

Alex from OpenAI's Codex team: 60-hour autonomous coding sessions, enterprise pull, and the human teammate analogy

OpenAI's Adam Fry on ChatGPT Atlas: the browser as the missing OS layer for AI

Eric Seufert: OpenAI running ads is inevitable — and it will be the most important new ads platform in a decade

Sam Altman and Bill Peebles on Sora's launch: 70% of users are creating, and this is 'the GPT-3.5 moment for video'

SemiAnalysis's Doug O'Laughlin: OpenAI is making itself too big to fail by locking in every chip and hyperscaler partner

Simon Eskildsen X timeline: energy costs near data centers up 267%, OpenAI's $2.5B cash burn, and AI bubble debate

Stripe launches agentic commerce protocol with OpenAI — buy products inside ChatGPT starting today

Anonymous OpenAI researcher Rune on Codex, open source AI, and why LLMs are upending software engineering

Bret Taylor on Sierra's $350M raise, beating incumbent SaaS, and the future of AI agents in customer service

OpenAI ships GPT-5 Codex model as coding agent usage grows 10x in one month

Keith Rabois: OpenAI is winning the AI battle, Opendoor needs a new CEO and AI-native transformation

Mark Chen on GPT-5's reasoning leap, tool use, and why OpenAI is cautious about optimizing for DAUs

Greg Brockman traces OpenAI's journey from GPT-1 to GPT-5 and explains why software engineering is being revolutionized

Sarah Friar: ChatGPT hits 700M weekly users and 5M enterprise seats as OpenAI scales toward AGI

Max Schwarzer on GPT-5's post-training breakthrough: rebuilding the stack from scratch to cut hallucinations

Brad Lightcap on GPT-5's cross-industry impact, productivity gains, and OpenAI's enterprise adoption strategy

Ben Hylak on GPT-5's one-shot reasoning, Nano's cost/performance sweet spot, and what's coming next

SemiAnalysis on Meta's Project Prometheus: 1GW Ohio cluster set to surpass Stargate, Llama 4 called a failure

OpenAI engineers demo ChatGPT Agent handling multi-step tasks like scheduling, planning, and presentations

Dan Shipper of Every on using ChatGPT Agent to autonomously analyze feedback for his email AI app

Swyx on Meta's AI talent raid: $100M+ first-year packages, OpenAI's surprising resilience, and Cursor poaching Claude Code's creators

Will Brown breaks down Meta's AI talent raid and what Zuckerberg's Superintelligence team actually means

WIRED's Kylie Robison on the OpenAI AGI paper suppression, the $100M offer debate, and what comes next in the talent war

Dylan Patel breaks down OpenAI's compute ceiling, China's robotics dominance, and AMD's uphill battle

OpenAI's Nikunj Handa on the Responses API's new MCP support and why remote MCP servers are a breakthrough for agentic apps

David Senra on Jony Ive's obsessive design philosophy and what OpenAI is really buying for $6.5B

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil on Codex, GPT-5, sycophancy postmortem, and why personalization is the next frontier

OpenAI's Will Depue on the Ghibli explosion, the Fiverr eval, and AI-powered personalized shopping

OpenAI's Aidan McLaughlin on model naming chaos, post-training design, and the discontinuity effect

News (105)

OpenAI closes $122B raise at $852B valuation, hits $2B monthly revenue and 900M weekly ChatGPT users

OpenAI's ChatGPT ads pilot hits $100M annualized run rate six weeks after launch, expanding to self-serve in April

ARM bets $15B on making its own chips, partnering with Meta and OpenAI

OpenAI kills Sora as a standalone app, consolidating AI video into ChatGPT

OpenAI's new nonprofit foundation to spend $1B in 2026, appoints co-founders to leadership

OpenAI offers PE firms 17.5% guaranteed return in $10B enterprise distribution play

OpenAI hires top Meta ad exec to lead global ad sales push

OpenAI pivots to enterprise and coding, declares war on 'side quests'

Oracle and OpenAI drop Stargate expansion lease — Meta swoops in same day as power constraints force Blackwell-to-Rubin rethink

Sam Altman defends Pentagon deal internally, calls backlash 'really painful' and rollout 'sloppy'

OpenAI employee quits in protest over ChatGPT ads, publishes New York Times op-ed

OpenAI launches ads in ChatGPT free tier

OpenAI launches Frontier enterprise platform and hires hundreds of forward-deployed engineers

Sam Altman fires back at Anthropic's Super Bowl ads: 'deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren't real'

Nvidia-OpenAI $100B investment talks stall as Jensen publicly walks back the commitment

SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI in latest round targeting $830B valuation

ChatGPT launches 4% checkout fee and $60 CPM ads — early advertisers get minimal attribution data

OpenAI adds $1B in API ARR in a single month as Sam Altman eyes $50B raise at up to $830B valuation

OpenAI and ServiceNow sign 3-year pact to embed AI agents across enterprise workflows

Elon Musk seeks $134B in damages from OpenAI as lawsuit escalates

OpenAI announces ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers, with strict editorial firewall

Thinking Machines CTO fired for 'unethical conduct' as co-founders defect back to OpenAI

OpenAI signs $10B multi-year compute deal with Cerebras through 2028

OpenAI acquires Torch, a four-person healthcare startup, to power ChatGPT Health

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health with medical records integration

OpenAI has declared 'code red' multiple times, most recently in response to Google Gemini benchmark gains

OpenAI in early talks to raise at $750B valuation

Amazon in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI alongside commerce partnership discussions

ChatGPT Images 1.5 launches with 4x speed improvement and new in-app discovery surface

OpenAI comms chief Hannah Wong departs after guiding company through ChatGPT launch and regulatory firestorms

Disney invests $1B in OpenAI, grants three-year exclusive license for 200 characters including Star Wars and Frozen

GPT-5.2 launches with major benchmark gains; Oracle delays OpenAI data centers to 2028

Disney invests $1B in OpenAI and licenses 200 characters to Sora — exclusively for year one

OpenAI poaches ~40 Apple hardware engineers in a month to build Jony Ive's device

OpenAI launches shopping research in ChatGPT, taking on Google in agentic commerce

OpenAI's Fidji Simo: managing the company remotely from LA while betting on AI as personal shopper and travel agent

OpenAI CFO acknowledges ChatGPT growth slowdown tied to content restrictions

SoftBank books OpenAI paper gains while selling Nvidia stake to actually fund the investment

OpenAI's GPT-4o deprecation triggers user revolt — fans threaten employees over model sunset

OpenAI's lobbying for government-backed data center loans contradicts Sam Altman's public denial

OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter per Microsoft filing; hosts parse capex vs. true losses

OpenAI lays groundwork for IPO targeting up to $1T valuation, possible 2027 listing

Microsoft and OpenAI restructure their partnership: extended IP rights, $250B Azure commitment, and AGI verification panel

OpenAI launches Atlas browser, targeting Chrome with AI-native browsing

OpenAI's chip partnership blitz: NVIDIA cosigns loans, AMD deal announced as Sam Altman plays the supply chain

Foxconn shares jump 8% after chairman discloses meeting with Sam Altman

OpenAI's $1T web: the company is becoming a hyperscaler with deals spanning every major tech player

OpenAI DevDay: agent builder, Sora 2 API at 32¢/sec, and apps inside ChatGPT

OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar AMD chip deal worth up to ~$300B with 10% equity warrants

OpenAI's $6.6B secondary share sale closes below the $10.3B authorized — insiders say it's a confidence signal

ChatGPT Pulse launches same day as Vibes — and the reception couldn't be more different

OpenAI announces five new Stargate sites, ahead of schedule on 10-gigawatt commitment

Nvidia invests $100B in OpenAI in circular deal critics are calling the 'Lucent moment' of AI

Nvidia commits $100B letter of intent to invest in OpenAI in circular AI infrastructure deal

OpenAI approaching hardware suppliers for smart speaker and wearables, targeting late 2026 launch

OpenAI converts to public benefit corporation, nonprofit keeps $100B stake and control

OpenAI signs $300B cloud computing deal with Oracle, triggering 36% stock surge

OpenAI backs AI-animated feature film 'Critters' targeting Cannes 2026 debut

OpenAI signs $10B chip deal with Broadcom to mass-produce custom AI inference chips on TSMC 3nm

xAI sues former employee for stealing Grok trade secrets before joining OpenAI

A16z and OpenAI's Greg Brockman back $100M 'Leading the Future' pro-AI super PAC

xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging monopolistic partnership blocks AI competition

Court filing reveals Elon Musk asked Zuckerberg to join xAI's bid to acquire OpenAI at 80% discount

GPT-5 is facing a 'reverse DeepSeek moment' — botched launch creating false impression of stalled AI progress

OpenAI staff set to sell $6B in shares at $500B valuation

GPT-5's rocky rollout: OpenAI reverses 'warmth' changes, API traffic doubles, Sam Altman says we're in an AI bubble

OpenAI and Sam Altman back Merge Labs, a Neuralink rival, at $850M valuation

OpenAI releases first open-source model in years — GPT-O OSS matches o3 performance and runs on consumer hardware

GPT-5 reportedly dropping next week with 1M token context window and dynamic reasoning

OpenAI and Google DeepMind both hit IMO gold-medal math performance — sparking AGI debate

OpenAI's ChatGPT agent launch includes a new frontier model quietly matching GPT-5 capabilities

OpenAI plans Chrome competitor browser as Perplexity's Comet and The Browser Company's Dia heat up browser wars

OpenAI closes $6.5B all-stock acquisition of Jony Ive's hardware startup IO

Meta poaches Apple's top AI researcher amid growing internal turmoil at Apple

Daniel Gross officially departs SSI; Ilya Sutskever takes sole CEO role

Apple weighs outsourcing Siri to Anthropic or OpenAI in major strategic reversal

Meta poaches top OpenAI researchers as Zuckerberg assembles 'Superintelligence' team

Meta poaches entire OpenAI Zurich office — three top multimodal researchers join Meta's Superintelligence Project

OpenAI forced to scrub all Jony Ive 'io' branding after trademark lawsuit from rival startup

OpenAI considering antitrust complaint against Microsoft as partnership tensions reach boiling point

Microsoft bets on agents and 'platform, platform, platform' to hold AI territory as OpenAI revenue share generates $10B annually

Sam Altman says OpenAI's $6.5B IO acquisition could add $1 trillion in value

OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's hardware startup IO for $6.5B to build AI-first devices

Inside Stargate: Bloomberg gets exclusive access to OpenAI's $500B Abilene, Texas datacenter build

OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent that can run parallel tasks and submit PRs autonomously

OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, will remain under nonprofit control

OpenAI agrees to acquire Windsurf (formerly Kodium) for $3B in its largest deal ever

OpenAI launches o3 and o4 mini: agentic tool use is the real breakthrough

OpenAI in talks to acquire Windsurf for $3B

OpenAI in talks to acquire Windsurf for ~$3B in its largest-ever acquisition

OpenAI exploring social network to rival X — hosts say it's a distraction and Google+ proves the risk

OpenAI launches Infinite Memory, raising switching costs across the AI model market

SoftBank commits $40B to OpenAI using Japanese bank debt — the largest startup investment in history

Inside Sam Altman's firing: board dysfunction, Mira Murati's double role, and Ilya's pivotal evidence

OpenAI signs $12B five-year deal with CoreWeave, gets $350M equity stake ahead of IPO

OpenAI plans $2K–$20K/month agent tiers as Sam Altman pitches investors on massive ARR expansion

Judge signals she may block OpenAI's nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion in Musk lawsuit

OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its largest chat model yet, rolling out to Pro users

Elon's $97B OpenAI bid forces legal reckoning over nonprofit-to-for-profit conversion

Elon Musk's $97.4B unsolicited bid for OpenAI's nonprofit complicates for-profit conversion

John Schulman joins Mira Murati's startup after short stint at Anthropic, as OpenAI alumni scatter

SoftBank is preparing to put $43B into OpenAI across Stargate and a direct equity round

Masayoshi Son levers up $18.5B to back Stargate and invest $40B in OpenAI

Stargate reality check: only the first $100B is real, Microsoft is the biggest loser

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that browses the web and takes actions on your behalf

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Anthropic's Super Bowl attack ads take aim at OpenAI's ads product — and the gloves are off

Elon vs. OpenAI: Leaked Brockman documents and the case for both sides

OpenAI's Super Bowl ad strategy: from inspiration to pragmatic utility

OpenAI's 'Code Red' Slack memo: Sam Altman's internal alarm and what it means for the AI race

Sam Altman warns of economic headwinds from resurging Google — is OpenAI priced to perfection?

GPT-4o's companion users may have saved it from retirement — a debate on model versioning and AI attachment

AI market jitters: CoreWeave down 45%, Nvidia sliding, and the AI boom fragility debate

Satya Nadella's Dwarkesh interview reveals Microsoft's AI strategy: demand-driven build-out, MAI training lab, and OpenAI IP optionality

OpenAI CFO floats federal 'backstop' for AI infrastructure, sparking immediate controversy

Sam Altman's '$1.4T spending, sell your shares' answer triggers widespread skepticism

Ilya Sutskever's deposition reveals OpenAI coup was 'rushed' and almost led to Anthropic merger

OpenAI's 800M users and $13B ARR: what the numbers really say about monetization

OpenAI announces adult content for verified users — hosts debate brand damage and business rationale

Sam Altman's OpenAI vision: trillion-dollar compute deals, affiliate revenue, and the path to financial self-sufficiency

Sora 2 launches: AI video strategy breakdown — who is really winning between OpenAI, Meta, and Google?

Sora 2 launches as OpenAI bets on AI video as a content platform

ChatGPT x Stripe x Shopify: agentic commerce arrives — who captures the take rate?

Meta AI Vibes vs. ChatGPT Pulse: Two very different visions for AI content feeds launch on the same day

OpenAI teases compute-heavy product launches — Sora 2, agents, and personalization on the roadmap

Gemini surges to #1 globally on app charts — but it's mostly an India story

Grok Code Fast dominates OpenRouter but the data flatters xAI — here's what it actually means

Oracle's $300B OpenAI deal and Larry Ellison's $100B fortune surge in one trading day

OpenAI's GPT-5 router sets the stage for agentic commerce and ad monetization

GPT-5 hands-on: solid upgrade but not the leap people expected

Elon vs. Sam: xAI threatens Apple with antitrust lawsuit over App Store featuring

OpenAI Codex merges 345K PRs in 35 days, dwarfing GitHub Copilot and other coding agents

OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's IO: a $6.5B all-stock bet on post-iPhone hardware

OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, keeps nonprofit board in control

OpenAI's Studio Ghibli image generation goes viral, dominating the timeline

Sam Altman's World eyeball-scanner app aims to be an everything app rivaling Elon's X

GPT-4.5 reviewed: 10x more compute, but is the improvement worth it?

Grok 3 vs. OpenAI deep research: a head-to-head prompt breakdown

WSJ deep dive: how Altman and Musk went from co-founders to bitter rivals

Super Bowl ad review: OpenAI's $16M brand spot vs. Ramp's direct-response win with Saquon Barkley

Ben Thompson's OpenAI critique: AI safety culture cost America the race

Jevons paradox vs. Nvidia bear case: tech Twitter reacts to DeepSeek's market shock

Stargate drama: Sam Altman fires back at Musk as Satya Nadella trolls both with the crying emoji