Openai talks to investors with shares sales about $ 500 million valuation

Openai is in research on some potential stock sales, approximately $ 500 million in value, according to two sources of knowledge of the subject.

The talks are in the initial phases and would indicate secondary sales with the shares of current and former staff sold, because people were not confidential. Capital capital, an investor Openai, can lead to a possible turn, the sources said.

Bloomberg was first reported for the last talks.

Openi’s assessment has been constant due to the start of artificial intelligence in 2022 and established as a leader in the AI generation. The company announced $ 40 billion financing dollars Round in March $ 300 million, the largest number of distant private companies ever raised.

Last week, announced the newest Openai 8.3 million trams related to this round funding.

Openai released two Open weight language models Since the first time was rolled on Tuesday GPT-2 In 2019. Models serve as a lower cost option Developers And researchers can easily run and customize, Openai said.

The company said Chatgpt was about to play 700 million active users.

Open the opponent AngleMeanwhile, it is in talks, to secure between 3 trillion and $ 5 billion Iconiq capital 170 trillion in a potential rating of dollars, between $ 61.5 million in March.

CNBC previously reported that Openi’s annual income is projected every year in $ 20 billion, up to 10 trillion dollars in June.

See: Openai releases two new open-weight models