{"id":12868,"date":"2025-04-01T07:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2025-04-01T07:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:14:40","slug":"openai-raises-up-to-40bn-us-dollars-in-record-breaking-deal-with-softbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=12868","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI raises up to 40bn US dollars in record-breaking deal with SoftBank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OpenAI said it had raised $40bn in a funding round that valued the ChatGPT<\/a> maker at $300bn \u2013 the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes in a partnership with the Japanese investment group SoftBank and \u201cenables us to push the frontiers of AI research even further,\u201d OpenAI<\/a> announced, adding it would \u201cpave the way toward AGI (artificial general intelligence)\u201d for which \u201cmassive computing power is essential\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SoftBank said it wanted to realise \u201cartificial super intelligence\u201d (ASI) surpassing human intelligence and OpenAI was the partner closest to achieving that goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SoftBank is to put $10bn at first into OpenAI and $30bn more by the end of 2025 if certain conditions are met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Monday, OpenAI announced it was building a more open generative AI model as it faces growing competition in the open-source space from DeepSeek<\/a> and Meta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI previously was a fierce defender of closed, proprietary models that do not allow developers to modify the basic technology to adapt AI to their goals. \u201cWe\u2019ve been thinking about this for a long time, but other priorities took precedence. Now it feels important to do,\u201d said the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI and defenders of closed models \u2013 which include Google \u2013 have often decried open models as riskier and more vulnerable to malicious and non-US government use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk, a former OpenAI investor, has called on OpenAI<\/a> to \u201creturn to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Large companies and governments have proven reluctant to use AI models they have no control over, especially when data security is a concern. Meta and DeepSeek let companies download and modify their models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meta\u2019s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said this month that Llama had hit 1 bn downloads. DeepSeek\u2019s lower-cost R1 model in January rocked the world of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI has been riding on the success of its latest image-generation features in ChatGPT. Altman claimed the tool helped add \u201cone million users\u201d in one hour and overwhelmed OpenAI\u2019s graphics processing units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

source: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

source photo: (1) OpenAI | Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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