报告：OpenAI关闭30B " 桥梁 " 供资回合
人工智能领袖OpenAI Group PBC可能计划在不久的将来公开
事实上，目前人们相信，它正在与投资者谈判增加300亿美元的投资，使其估值达到惊人的1.25万亿美元，这将成为有史以来最有价值的私营公司。
今天CNBC的一份报告称 OpenAI正在与阿拉伯联合酋长国的预期支持者进行讨论，后者将领导新一轮谈判，美国风险投资公司Coatue也将参加。 该回合被定位为OpenAI的“机会性”桥梁，为它提供它继续投资其业务所需的资本，同时最后确定初步公开报价的计划。
认为阿联酋投资者在上个月首先接近OpenAI，彭博社上个月报告了这些初步会谈，现在看来讨论已进入后期阶段。 根据CNBC的报告，OpenAI希望在新周结束前让投资者在虚线上签字，尽管投资的确切规模尚未确定。
拟议回合比OpenAI在3月的最后一次大提速要小得多。 当时，融资公司从包括Amazon.com股份有限公司，SoftBank集团公司和Nvidia公司在内的投资者那里获得了惊人的1,220亿美元的资金，后期估值为8,520亿美元。 当时假定这笔钱足以维持公司的运作，直到它能够最后确定其期待已久的IPO的细节为止，它于6月向证券交易委员会正式提交了保密计划书，以准备这样做。
有一阵子，人们假设OpenAI今年的某个时候想公开，但公司现在似乎已经冷却了这个想法。 8月，首席财务官Sarah Friar告诉雇员说，OpenAI“将在2027年成为一家公营公司”，但不到一个月后，首席执行官Sam Altman出现倒退，说他认为今年公司要上市是“不明智的”。
OpenAI改变计划，为对手Anthropic PBC打进公共市场铺平了道路。 Claude的创造者正在策划自己的大规模IPO，据报道正在寻求价值在1.5万至2.5万亿美元之间。 其计划被认为更进一步，许多人认为它可以及时成为感恩节的公营公司。
除了新的投资外，据报道，OpenAI还在与阿联酋投资者讨论一项单独的商业交易，使阿联酋能够在中东获得更多的计算能力。
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Report: OpenAI closing on $30B ‘bridge’ funding round to tide it over before IPO
Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI Group PBC might have plans to go public in the near future, but it isn’t done with private funding rounds.
Indeed, it’s currently believed to be negotiating with investors an additional $30 billion investment that would bring its valuation to a staggering $1.25 trillion, which would make it the most valuable private company of all time.
A report in CNBC today said OpenAI is holding discussions with prospective backers from the United Arab Emirates, who will lead the new round, with the U.S. venture capital firm Coatue expected to participate too. The round is being positioned as an “opportunistic” bridge for OpenAI, to provide it with the capital it needs to continue investing in its business while finalizing plans for an initial public offering.
It’s believed that the UAE investors first approached OpenAI last month to propose another major funding round. Bloomberg reported on those initial talks last month, and now it appears that the discussions have reached an advanced stage. According to CNBC’s report, OpenAI hopes to get the investors to sign on the dotted line by the end of new week, even though the exact size of the investment has not yet been determined.
The proposed round is much smaller than OpenAI’s last major raise in March. Back then, the company raised a staggering $122 billion from investors including Amazon.com Inc., SoftBank Group Corp. and Nvidia Corp. at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. It was assumed at the time that the money would be enough to keep the company going until it could finalize the details of its long-awaited IPO, and it duly filed its confidential prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June in preparation for that.
For a while, it was assumed that OpenAI was looking to go public sometime this year, but the company now appears to have cooled on that idea. In August, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar told employees that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027,” but less than a month later, Chief Executive Sam Altman appeared to backtrack, saying that he believes it would be “ill-advised” for the company to go public this year.
OpenAI’s change of plans has paved the way for its rival Anthropic PBC to beat it to the public markets. The creator of Claude is plotting its own massive IPO, and is reportedly seeking a valuation of between $1.5 trillion and $2.5 trillion. Its plans are thought to be much further along, and many believe it could be a public company in time for Thanksgiving.
In addition to the new investment, OpenAI is also reportedly discussing a separate commercial deal with the UAE investors that would give it access to more compute capacity in the Middle East.
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