{"id":952242,"date":"2025-08-04T07:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952242"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:02:41","slug":"openai-raises-8-3-billion-at-300-billion-valuation-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/04\/openai-raises-8-3-billion-at-300-billion-valuation-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI raises $8.3 billion at $300 billion valuation: NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has secured $8.3 billion in new funding, valuing the company at an estimated $300 billion, according to The New York Times. The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, a part of OpenAI&#8217;s broader strategy to secure $40 billion this year. <\/p>\n<p>Back in March, OpenAI shared plans to raise significant capital, with SoftBank expected to invest up to $30 billion by the end of the year. In the same month, the company had already raised $2.5 billion from venture capital firms, aiming to bring in another $7.5 billion before year-end. However, the funding came in faster and well above target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has secured $8.3 billion in new funding, valuing the company at an estimated $300 billion, according to The New York Times. The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, a part of OpenAI&#8217;s broader strategy to secure $40 billion this year. Back in March, OpenAI shared plans to raise significant capital, with SoftBank expected to invest up to $30 billion by the end of the year. In the same month, the company had already raised $2.5 billion from venture capital firms, aiming to bring in another $7.5 billion before year-end. However, the funding came in faster and well above [&hellip;]<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952242","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=952242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}