{"id":955550,"date":"2025-08-18T07:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955550"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:17:12","slug":"openai-staff-looking-to-sell-6-billion-in-stock-to-softbank-others-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/18\/openai-staff-looking-to-sell-6-billion-in-stock-to-softbank-others-source\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI staff looking to sell $6 billion in stock to SoftBank, others: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current and former employees of OpenAI are looking to sell nearly $6 billion worth of the ChatGPT maker&#8217;s shares to investors, including SoftBank Group and Thrive Capital, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The potential deal would value the company at $500 billion, up from $300 billion currently, underscoring both OpenAI&#8217;s rapid gains in users and revenue, as well as the intense competition among artificial intelligence firms for talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current and former employees of OpenAI are looking to sell nearly $6 billion worth of the ChatGPT maker&#8217;s shares to investors, including SoftBank Group and Thrive Capital, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The potential deal would value the company at $500 billion, up from $300 billion currently, underscoring both OpenAI&#8217;s rapid gains in users and revenue, as well as the intense competition among artificial intelligence firms for talent.<\/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-955550","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\/955550","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=955550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}