Rain for AI leaders
Chatgpt company gets $ 40 billion in investors
Development and operation of software with artificial intelligence are expensive. The AI lead Openai therefore secures an unprecedented money injection.
The Chatgpt developer Openai has secured $ 40 billion of investors for further growth. An overall rating of $ 300 billion is associated with the unprecedented financial injection, as Openaai said. The money is to be expanded with the money, among other things, the computer infrastructure and research in artificial intelligence are intended to expand.
Openai also announced that Chatgpt was used every week by 500 million people. The Chatbot is the most famous AI program and triggered the hype for artificial intelligence more than two years ago. In the meantime there are more rivals such as Claude from Anthropic or Grok from Elon Musks Xai.
Openai conversion as a prerequisite
The financing round was led by the Japanese technology group Softbank. According to information from the Bloomberg financial service, Openaai initially receives $ 7.5 billion from Softbank and 2.5 billion from an investor group.
The prerequisite for the payment of the remaining 30 billion is that Openai takes over the conversion to a profit -based company as planned at the end of the year, it was said, citing an informed person. So far, the company has been controlled by a non-profit organization. Tech billionaire Musk, once an Openai co-founder, wants to prevent the renovation and also went to court.
Money for “Stargate” project
If the conversion should fail, Softbank can reduce its planned total investment from $ 30 to $ 20 billion, wrote Bloomberg. According to media reports, part of the financial injection is to be used for the AI computer project “Stargate”, which was announced in the White House of US President Donald Trump with a total investment of $ 500 billion.
dpa
Source: Stern
