{"id":918609,"date":"2025-04-01T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=918609"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:24:02","slug":"amid-ghibli-image-hype-openai-secures-40bn-funding-led-by-softbank-doubling-valuation-to-300bn-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/01\/amid-ghibli-image-hype-openai-secures-40bn-funding-led-by-softbank-doubling-valuation-to-300bn-all-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Ghibli image hype, OpenAI secures $40bn funding led by SoftBank, doubling valuation to $300bn\u2014All you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman, founder-CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, on April 1 announced that the platform saw a record 1 million users in an hour \u2014 all thanks to its Ghibli-style image generation feature. Now, thanks to the user engagement, the artificial intelligence (AI) tech company has said that it has secured $40 billion from investors, in a funding round led by Softbank Group, to double valuation to $300 billion, according to a Bloomberg report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHundreds of millions people use ChatGPT each week. This investment helps us push the frontier and make AI more useful in everyday life,\u201d Sam Altman said in a statement on March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman, founder-CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, on April 1 announced that the platform saw a record 1 million users in an hour \u2014 all thanks to its Ghibli-style image generation feature. Now, thanks to the user engagement, the artificial intelligence (AI) tech company has said that it has secured $40 billion from investors, in a funding round led by Softbank Group, to double valuation to $300 billion, according to a Bloomberg report. \u201cHundreds of millions people use ChatGPT each week. This investment helps us push the frontier and make AI more useful in everyday life,\u201d Sam Altman said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918609","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}