OpenAI got up to $40 billion in its latest funding round

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Apr 1, 2025 - 19:23

Summary: OpenAI, the most popular artificial intelligence company, has raised up to 40 billion dollars in a funding round. However, part of the funding depends on the company becoming for-profit this year.

OpenAI continues to work hard to stay at the top of the artificial intelligence industry. If all goes as planned, the company will transition to a for-profit business model this year. This will allow them to raise more capital to continue developing advanced AI-powered features. Meanwhile, OpenAI conducts funding rounds, raising 40 billion dollars in the most recent.

OpenAI just raised 40 billion dollars via funding round

OpenAI conducted a new funding round recently, reaching a total company valuation of $300 billion. The latest $40 billion in funding represents the largest funding round ever raised by a private US company.

According to a CNBC report, SoftBank led the funding round. The Japanese investment giant will pay $10 billion upfront, of which $2.5 billion will come from an “investor syndicate.” OpenAI will receive the remaining $30 billion by the end of 2025. That said, a quarter of the funding obtained is contingent on OpenAI meeting one condition: that it has already become a for-profit company by the end of the year.

OpenAI aims for enormous growth in the coming years. The United States has already launched the Stargate project, which will establish massive data centers to support the development of artificial intelligence in the country. This is a monumental undertaking with a total investment of around $500 billion. The project is expected to be completed in the next four years.

In the last few hours, OpenAI has made some major announcements. First, the popularity of ChatGPT, its most popular service, continues to grow exponentially. The company even received one million registrations in just one hour. The viral trend of “Ghiblified” images, which ChatGPT can now generate, drove this wave of popularity.

OpenAI also confirmed that the company will launch an open AI model this year. This model will have “reasoning” capabilities comparable to those of OpenAI’s o3-mini. Lastly, the firm revealed that ChatGPT boasts 500 million weekly users.

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