New funding to scale the benefits of AI

https://openai.com/index/scale-the-benefits-of-ai/

by minimaxir • 2 years ago

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minimaxir• 2 years ago

Official announcement of the fundraise posted by other media outlets (and more exact funding numbers of $6.6B at a $157B post-money valuation), although this one conspiciously omits who the investors are.

immortal3• 2 years ago

Is it possible that US or any other government has participated in the round which might be the reason?

jsheard• 2 years ago

I think it's more likely they're taking money from Saudi Arabia or some other unpopular source, and don't want to associate themselves if they can avoid it.

Anthropic made a point of refusing Saudi money: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/anthropic-lining-up-a-new-sl...

dang• 2 years ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41722742 (except the ones that only make sense in the current context).

New funding to scale the benefits of AI

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