{"id":987305,"date":"2026-01-23T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987305"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:03:00","slug":"as-openai-is-about-to-fall-apart-predictions-make-headlines-sam-altman-goes-to-middle-east-to-participate-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/23\/as-openai-is-about-to-fall-apart-predictions-make-headlines-sam-altman-goes-to-middle-east-to-participate-in\/","title":{"rendered":"As OpenAI is &#8216;about to fall apart&#8217; predictions make headlines, Sam Altman goes to Middle East to participate in &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now seeking funding from a new market: the Middle East. This comes after veteran investor George Noble warned that the AI company is &#8220;falling apart in real time&#8221; despite its $500 billion valuation. According to a Bloomberg report, OpenAI is in talks with Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to secure investments for a new multibillion-dollar funding round.<\/p>\n<p>The report cited a source familiar with the discussions who asked not to be named because the details are confidential to claim that this investment round is expected to total around $50 billion, though the numbers could change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now seeking funding from a new market: the Middle East. This comes after veteran investor George Noble warned that the AI company is &#8220;falling apart in real time&#8221; despite its $500 billion valuation. According to a Bloomberg report, OpenAI is in talks with Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to secure investments for a new multibillion-dollar funding round. The report cited a source familiar with the discussions who asked not to be named because the details are confidential to claim that this investment round is expected to total around $50 billion, though the numbers could change.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987305","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=987305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}