{"id":918408,"date":"2025-04-01T06:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=918408"},"modified":"2025-04-01T07:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:36:44","slug":"openai-to-raise-40-billion-in-softbank-led-funding-deal-to-place-company-among-worlds-most-valuable-pvt-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/01\/openai-to-raise-40-billion-in-softbank-led-funding-deal-to-place-company-among-worlds-most-valuable-pvt-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI to raise $40 billion in SoftBank-led funding; deal to place company among world\u2019s most valuable pvt firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based AI powerhouse OpenAI announced on Monday that it will raise $40 billion in a fresh funding round led by SoftBank Group, valuing the company at a staggering $300 billion. The capital infusion aims to advance AI research, expand computational infrastructure and enhance OpenAI\u2019s suite of AI tools. <\/p>\n<p>A Reuters report quoted sources as saying that SoftBank will contribute 75% of the funding, while the remainder will come from existing investors, including Microsoft, Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Thrive Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based AI powerhouse OpenAI announced on Monday that it will raise $40 billion in a fresh funding round led by SoftBank Group, valuing the company at a staggering $300 billion. The capital infusion aims to advance AI research, expand computational infrastructure and enhance OpenAI\u2019s suite of AI tools. A Reuters report quoted sources as saying that SoftBank will contribute 75% of the funding, while the remainder will come from existing investors, including Microsoft, Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and Thrive Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}