{"id":18321,"date":"2025-04-01T03:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/openai-raises-up-to-us40bn-in-deal-with-softbank\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T03:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:37:37","slug":"openai-raises-up-to-us40bn-in-deal-with-softbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/openai-raises-up-to-us40bn-in-deal-with-softbank\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI raises up to US$40bn in deal with SoftBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese investment group says it wants to realise \u2018artificial super intelligence\u2019 \u2013 smarter than people \u2013 in partnership with ChatGPT maker<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said it had raised US$40bn in a funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300bn \u2013 the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup.<\/p>\n<p>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 announced, adding it would \u201cpave the way toward AGI (artificial general intelligence)\u201d for which \u201cmassive computing power is essential\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/01\/openai-raises-up-to-us40bn-in-deal-with-softbank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bae394e3d141460f51a022866de044911202e36a\/0_0_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=10c6dcec0fa207f2874992006fb072c3\" title=\"OpenAI raises up to US$40bn in deal with SoftBank\" \/>Japanese investment group says it wants to realise \u2018artificial super intelligence\u2019 \u2013 smarter than people \u2013 in partnership with ChatGPT maker<br \/>\nOpenAI said it had raised US$40bn in a funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300bn \u2013 the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup.<br \/>\nIt comes in a partnership with the Japanese investment group SoftBank and \u201cenables us to push the frontiers of AI research even further,\u201d OpenAI announced, adding it would \u201cpave the way toward AGI (artificial general intelligence)\u201d for which \u201cmassive computing power is essential\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese investment group says it wants to realise \u2018artificial super intelligence\u2019 \u2013 smarter than people \u2013 in partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it had raised US$40bn in a funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300bn \u2013 the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup. It comes in a partnership with the Japanese &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/openai-raises-up-to-us40bn-in-deal-with-softbank\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI raises up to US$40bn in deal with SoftBank<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}