{"id":987288,"date":"2026-01-23T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987288"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:48:23","slug":"sam-altman-in-uae-as-openai-turns-to-middle-east-for-estimated-50-billion-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/23\/sam-altman-in-uae-as-openai-turns-to-middle-east-for-estimated-50-billion-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman in UAE as OpenAI turns to Middle East for estimated $50 billion funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is meeting with investors in the Middle East to meet top investors for raising a new funding round that could total at least $50 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. Altman is said to have spoken with investors, including leading state-backed funds in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>The ChatGPT maker is said to be looking to raise $50 billion or more at a valuation of $750 billion to $830 billion. The report noted that talks are early and the amounts could change. The company had also recently held talks with Amazon to raise $10 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is meeting with investors in the Middle East to meet top investors for raising a new funding round that could total at least $50 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. Altman is said to have spoken with investors, including leading state-backed funds in Abu Dhabi. The ChatGPT maker is said to be looking to raise $50 billion or more at a valuation of $750 billion to $830 billion. The report noted that talks are early and the amounts could change. The company had also recently held talks with Amazon to raise $10 billion.<\/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-987288","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\/987288","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=987288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}