OpenAI has pledged up to $1.5bn to a new joint venture with private equity firms, part of its effort to beat rival Anthropic and corner the increasingly lucrative market of selling AI tools to businesses.
The start-up will put an initial $500mn of its equity into the joint venture, which will be valued at $10bn as part of a funding round expected to close in early May, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
OpenAI has the option to add a further $1bn at a later date, they said. Investors including TPG, Bain Capital, Advent International, Brookfield and Goanna Capital will invest another $4bn, they added.
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