by Openaai said on Monday that it brought $ 40 billion in a new financing round that rated the Chatgpt manufacturer at $ 300 billion, the largest capital education meeting of all time for a startup.
The infusion of cash takes place in a partnership with the Japanese investment gigant Softbank Group and enables us to continue to advance the limits of AI research, “said the company based in San Francisco in a contribution on its website.
“Your support will help us to continue to build AI systems that promote scientific discovery, enable personalized education, improve human creativity and pave the way towards AGI (artificial general intelligence) that benefit all of humanity,” said the company.
Agi refers to a computer platform with intelligence at the human level.
In a publication, Softbank said that it was the mission to recognize artificial super intelligence (ASI) that exceeds human intelligence and that Openai is the partner that is closest to the goal.
“The further development of the KI models from Openai is the key to achieving AGI and ASI, and massive computing power is essential,” said Softbank in its reasoning for the recent investment in the company.
Softbank is said to pump 10 billion US dollars in Openai to start by $ 30 billion more by the end of this year.
Openai plans to scale its infrastructure and “provide increasingly powerful tools for the 500 million people who use chatt every week”.
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The financing messages came on the same day when Openai announced that it built up a more open generative AI model, since it is exposed to a growing competition in the open source sector in the open source rival Deepseek and Meta.
The step would mark a strategic postponement of Openai, which was previously a violent defender of closed, proprietary models with which developers cannot change basic technology in order to adapt AI more to their goals.
Openai and defender of closed models-in one thing Google-grapes often convicted of open models as risky and susceptible to shameful uses by malicious players or non-rules.
Openai’s hug closed models was also a dispute in his fights with the former investor Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, who asked Openai to honor the spirit of the name of the company and “return to the open source security force that it was once.”
If many large companies and governments have been put under pressure, have proven to build their AI products or services for models that have no control, especially if data security is a problem.
The core sales argument of the META family of Lama models or deepseeks models deals with these concerns by having companies download their models and the technology for their own purposes and control of their data have much greater control.
