Without entering the stock market, Openai could soon reach $ 500 billion in valuation. As a reminder, the Chatgpt creator is currently worth $ 300 billion. But, according to an article by Reuters, former and current OpenAi employees are planning to sell stocks of total value of nearly $ 6 billion to investors, including SoftBank. This operation could increase the valuation of the company from $ 300 billion to $ 500 billion.
As usual, caution remains in order, as long as the info is not official. However, this increase in its valuation would be another sign of the central role that Openai plays in the race for artificial intelligence, in the world.
Openai is still growing rapidly
The increase in the valuation of Openai, if the information of Reuters is confirmed, would also reflect the strong growth of Chatgpt. At the beginning of August, the chatbot was about to cross the mark of 700 million active users per week, which corresponds to a significant increase compared to the 500 million active users per week in March 2025. In addition, in one year, the number of chatgpt users was multiplied by 4.
This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users — up from 500M at the end of March and 4× since last year. Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT more useful and…
— Nick Turley (@nickaturley) August 4, 2025
Independent data also suggests that the paid version of Chatgpt attracts more and more users. Recently, Techcrunch has relayed appfigure data which indicate that, since the beginning of the year, the mobile application of Chatgpt has generated $ 1.35 billion. And this would correspond to an increase of 637 %, compared to the income of the app at the same period in 2024.
Appfigures: ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year (@Sarahpereztc / TechCrunch)https://t.co/G3ZDlGrN4khttps://t.co/jJ6pvnrFgnhttps://t.co/ZOzeer1FAj
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) August 15, 2025
And these estimates do not take into account the income of subscriptions from the web version or the income that Optaai generates thanks to its API. Otherwise, it is rumored that the company would plan to monetize the free version of Chatgpt via e-commerce features.
- According to an article by Reuters, former and current OpenAi employees are considering selling stocks worth $ 6 billion to investors
- This operation could increase the enhancement of the AI laboratory to $ 500 billion
- For the moment, this is only a rumor, but this increase in the valuation of Openai would be a reflection of the strong growth of Chatgpt
- In early August, it was about to cross the 700 million active users per month
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