OpenAI courts private equity to join enterprise AI venture, sources say

NEW YORK, March 16 (Reuters) – OpenAI is in advanced talks with private equity firms including TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield Asset Management to form a joint venture that would distribute its enterprise products across the firms’ portfolio companies and beyond, four people familiar with the matter said.

The proposed deal has a pre-money valuation of about $10 billion, two of the people said, and could give OpenAI a faster route into corporate adoption while providing the PE firms with a potential lifeline for companies in their portfolios that are exposed to AI disruption.