{"id":987493,"date":"2026-01-24T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987493"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:09:00","slug":"openais-sam-altman-meets-mideast-investors-for-50-billion-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/openais-sam-altman-meets-mideast-investors-for-50-billion-round\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman meets Mideast investors for $50 billion round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round that could total at least $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Altman recently visited the region, where he spoke with investors, including some of the leading state-backed funds in Abu Dhabi, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the information is not public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round that could total at least $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Altman recently visited the region, where he spoke with investors, including some of the leading state-backed funds in Abu Dhabi, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the information is not public.<\/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-987493","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\/987493","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=987493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}