The employees of the Chatgpt creator are preparing to give up for $ 6 billion in shares.
The employees and ex-employees of Openai, the creator of Chatgpt, plan to sell for $ 6 billion in their business, which would value it around $ 500 billion. It was 200 billion more than estimated during its last fundraising, last April … and three times more than during the round of October 2024, which valued it at $ 157 billion. This is suggested by the negotiations initiated by employees and ex-employees wishing to sell their actions of the company.
Investors already shareholders of OpenAi, such as the Japanese Tech Softbank fund, and the American investment funds Thrive Capital and Dragoneer, are ready to pay today even more to strengthen their positions in the company led by Sam Altman, which is not listed on the stock market.
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Meteoric growth
This transaction gives a new idea of the value taken in a few months by the company, whose growth is dazzling. At the end of July, Openai generated 1 billion turnover per month. Over the first seven months of the year, she practically doubled her revenues and could display in 2025 some $ 20 billion in income. Supported by Microsoft, the start-up has around 700 million weekly active users for its chatgpt products, compared to around 400 million in February.
Despite the disappointment aroused by the latest version of Chatgpt, the company also benefits from the enthusiasm of investors, private and public, for everything related to artificial intelligence. The billions are raining in the sector. SoftBank, for example, was the main support of Openai during its last fundraising, $ 40 billion. But, according to Bloomberg News, which revealed the information, the discussions on the securities of employees are only in their early days and the amount of the sale could still evolve.