OpenAI races to lock in $30B at $1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic IPO
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OpenAI is moving quickly to lock in roughly $30 billion in new investor commitments ahead of Anthropic's anticipated mid-November IPO, Reuters reports. Existing backers, including SoftBank Group (SFTBY [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SFTBY]) and Abu Dhabi's MGX, are in talks to…
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- 01OpenAI aims to lock in about $30 billion of new commitments ahead of Anthropic's anticipated mid-November IPO.
- 02SoftBank Group and Abu Dhabi's MGX are in talks to join, valuing OpenAI at about $1.4 trillion.
- 03The March round closed at a record $122 billion, including a commitment of up to $50 billion from Amazon.
- 04The compressed timeline also aims to get ahead of Anthropic, as both draw on a largely overlapping investor pool.
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