Will OpenAI become the most valuable start-up in the United States? It is in any case his dearest wish according to the wall street journal.
According to this media, OpenAI could achieve its goal and be valued at $29 billion.
OpenAI does not intend to stop there
2022 has simply been a dazzling year for OpenAI. Launched in 2015, the structure which is now “capped for profit” after having been non-profit during its first 4 years of existence, wants to continue its momentum in 2023. Founded in particular by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, OpenAI is on a mission to create artificial intelligence to benefit all of humanity. If you have followed the news in recent months, you could hardly escape ChatGPT, its chatbot responding to your requests.
If it still has some shortcomings, ChatGPT has nevertheless achieved notable success in just a few months. This is enough to take OpenAI from a start-up followed by far in Silicon Valley to one of the most cited firms of the last quarter of 2022. To continue to grow, the wall street journal claims that OpenAI now wants to sell shares as a takeover bid. However, in an interview granted at the end of December 2022 to the wall street journalSam Altman said he was not particularly interested in a “ IPO “.
However, it is a question of going much further than incremental growth since the objective is to make OpenAI the most valuable start-up in the United States, with a colossal figure at the end of the line of 29 billion of dollars. An excess that does not necessarily contrast with the colorful character that is its co-founder Elon Musk. For the moment, the stage of talks has not passed and the names of potential investors have not leaked.
ChatGPT starts 2023 as it ended 2022
Microsoft has already invested no less than $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, shortly after its status change. Proof of the long-standing interest in the structure, which spent the second half of 2022 at the heart of the news, first of all for Dall-E, a tool for artificially generating images online. But this was not the only success encountered by OpenAI since ChatGPT was largely part of the sensations of the end of 2022, to the point of worrying the giant that is Google.
Investors are all the more likely to be interested as OpenAI’s achievements are as numerous as they are successful. Several schools in New York (United States) have already blocked access to ChatGPT for their students, as the AI is proving to be efficient in allowing them to do their homework without too much effort.
Sources: The Wall Street Journal (1) , The Wall Street Journal (2)
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