Openai seeks to obtain additional capital from investors as part of its $ 40 billion tour

Openai seeks Capital is a new and current investors, telling two people familiar with the company’s plans. The fundraising voltage is part of a $ 40 billion tour in March. The tour will be reopened on Monday 28 July, according to one of the sources, which has direct knowledge of the voltage of donation.

A tour of 40 billion dollars I announced earlier this year Openai’s evaluation brought up to $ 300 billion, making it one of the most valuable startups in history. The tour led the Japanese investment group Softbank, which committed to 75 percent of the total financing. The initial segment amounted to $ 10 billion, with $ 7.5 billion from SoftBank and another $ 2.5 billion from the other investor union. Openai is currently raising $ 30 billion, with $ 22.5 of Softbank and $ 7.5 of the Other Investors Syndicate.

Softbank commitment It can be cut off To 10 billion dollars if Openai is not restructured by the end of the year, WIRED confirmed.

Openai refused to comment on the record.

Openai has raised a total of $ 63.92 billion since the establishment of the company in 2015, according to Cook. Its supporters include a wide range of institutional and individuals, including Microsoft, Andressen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Coature Management, Nvidia and Reid Hoffman. The Microsoft and Openai relationship is closely intertwined, as Microsoft Openai provides huge amounts of cloud computing resources and Openai that gives Microsoft exclusively to its best models – although it was recently reported that its relationship with it Complications.

Openai has also made a partnership with SoftBank, among other things, in the four -year -old intelligence data center project, which is expected to invest more than $ 500 billion. Wall Street Magazine I mentioned earlier this week The two entities were at odds regarding certain aspects of the partnership, including the location of the establishment of data centers, and that the CEO of Openai, Sam -German moves to sign deals for data centers aligned in Stargit without the Japanese company.

Softbank refused to comment on the record.

Openai’s structure was also a point of disagreement, and Elon Musk, which helped launch the research laboratory with a task to protect humanity against artificial public intelligence, or AGI. After Musk left the company’s board of directors in early 2018, Openai created a profit arm, partially to facilitate donation collection. last year Musk spent a lawsuit against Openai To abandon its original mission and said that the company “not only development but it improves AGI to increase Microsoft’s profits, rather than benefit from humanity.”

In May, Openai A new structure suggested This keeps non -profit organizations in controlling the company and turns the current subsidiary of profit into the General Avenues Company. This new non -profit organization will hold shares in PBC, and PBC will be designed in theory to determine the priorities of the returns for shareholders while following up projects with clear general advantages. Softbank investing in Openai depends on this new structure that was approved by the general lawyers in California and in Dilayer by early next year.

Additional reports by Kylie Robson and Zoe Chevir.