{"id":50604,"date":"2025-10-02T05:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/50604\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T05:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:38:06","slug":"openai-completes-share-sale-at-record-500-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/50604\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Completes Share Sale at Record $500 Billion Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1554630D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">OpenAI<\/a> has completed a deal allowing current and former employees to sell about $6.6 billion worth of shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The secondary sale vaults the ChatGPT-maker ahead of Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a> to become the most valuable startup in the world. OpenAI was previously valued at $300 billion in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-31\/openai-finalizes-40-billion-funding-at-300-billion-valuation\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\"> $40 billion financing round<\/a> led by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/9984:JP\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\"> SoftBank Group Corp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has completed a deal allowing current and former employees to sell about $6.6 billion worth of shares&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1585,345,343,344,4596,12807,268,85,46,16109,16358,303,125,1032,10750],"class_list":["post-50604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-c-suite","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-softbank-group-corp","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-valuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}