{"id":626660,"date":"2026-09-16T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626660\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:04:16","slug":"openai-investors-have-approached-the-company-about-a-new-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626660\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI investors have approached the company about a new funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OpenAI<\/p>\n

OpenAI<\/a> investors have approached the company with proposals to kick-start a new funding round, but no formal discussions are underway, multiple sources told CNBC. <\/p>\n

Investors have floated a $1.2 trillion valuation to OpenAI, and some have positioned the potential new funding round as a way for employees to sell stock, according to the people, who asked not to be named in order to discuss nonpublic information. <\/p>\n

OpenAI, which raised $122 billion<\/a> at a\u00a0$852 billion valuation in March, is not currently engaged in conversations, the people said. Following the round, OpenAI completed a secondary share sale<\/a> totaling roughly $7 billion in August, allowing employees to cash in a portion of their holdings. <\/p>\n

“We still have an incredible balance sheet,” OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar<\/a> told CNBC’s Jim Cramer in an interview<\/a> on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The Financial Times<\/a> was first to report the potential round. OpenAI declined to comment. <\/p>\n

OpenAI burst onto the mainstream in 2022 following the launch of its artificial intelligence<\/a> chatbot ChatGPT<\/a>, and it’s ballooned into one of the most valuable private companies in the world. <\/p>\n

The startup is gearing up for what is widely expected to be a blockbuster initial public offering next year, after it confidentially filed<\/a> its prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June. <\/p>\n

Friar told employees during an all-hands meeting<\/a>\u00a0last month that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027,” but that it could make its public market debut sooner if “our business continues to inflect.”<\/p>\n

OpenAI has been under intense scrutiny in recent months after two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached the open-source developer platform Hugging Face<\/a>. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorsed<\/a> a proposal to slow the pace<\/a> of model development on Saturday in an effort to better address safety risks. <\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with Fortune on Saturday, Altman<\/a> said that now would be an “ill-advised” moment to go public, in part because of the widespread concerns about safety. <\/p>\n

WATCH: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: I am a tech optimist, but it is also important to align around safety<\/a><\/p>\n

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