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author: li dan

source: hard ai

after microsoft invested in openai and successfully seized the opportunity of this round of ai boom, apple and nvidia also seem to want to strengthen their cooperation with openai through investment.

on thursday, august 29, eastern time, the wall street journal reported that apple is in talks to join openai's new round of financing, which would value openai at more than $100 billion.

coincidentally, the day before the above news broke, the wall street journal also mentioned openai's new financing on wednesday, saying that in this multi-billion dollar round of financing, the leading venture capital thrive capital will invest about $1 billion, and microsoft will participate. the media also mentioned that openai's existing shareholders have recently negotiated to sell shares at a company valuation of $103 billion, and any new investors may make the valuation reach or exceed this level.

the media also said on thursday that it is not clear how much money apple and microsoft will each invest in openai's new round of financing.

later, bloomberg also quoted insiders on thursday as saying that apple and microsoft were discussing participating in openai's new financing. insiders also mentioned that nvidia has discussed joining openai's round of financing. if the news is true and the discussion makes progress, the three companies with the highest market value in the world will all invest in openai.

public data shows that microsoft is openai's major sponsor, having invested a total of $13 billion in the past five years and now holds a 49% stake in openai. in july 2019, microsoft invested $1 billion in openai, and an additional $2 billion in 2021. after openai became famous with its chatbot chatgpt in december 2022, microsoft invested another $10 billion in january last year.

nvidia's dealings with openai are mainly reflected in providing key infrastructure required to develop and run ai tools such as chatgpt. nvidia's ai accelerator sales have soared in the past two years. as the world's largest ai accelerator manufacturer, nvidia currently accounts for about 80% to 95% of the ai ​​accelerator market share.

there have been no public reports of apple's direct investment in openai in recent years. the last time apple took the initiative to "show" its friendship with openai was at this year's worldwide developers conference (wwdc) in june. at that time, apple announced a partnership with openai to integrate chatgpt into ios 18, ipados 18, and the new version of macos, and siri could access chatgpt to provide suggestions when needed.

at the end of last month, the first version of apple's personal intelligent system apple intelligence was launched on the iphone for the first time. it is only available to paying developers and does not incorporate chatgpt. it is planned that the special features of chatgpt will be launched on the iphone next year.

commentators believe that if apple participates in the investment, it will consolidate its cooperative relationship with openai, which is an important partner for apple to make progress in the ai ​​competition.

on social media x, some netizens commented on the news that apple was discussing investing in openai, saying that they didn't know how much of the company's shares openai would sell, and that billions of dollars were not enough for them to train the next model.

some netizens said that openai is basically marketing itself to apple, so we will never get any major updates to chatgpt unless it is also released on ios/mac. other netizens speculated that apple wanted to invest in openai because ceo cook must have seen the demonstration of openai's mysterious project "strawberry" and gpt-5.