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it home reported on september 21 that the technology media the decoder published a blog post yesterday (september 20), reporting that openaiabout to complete a round worth $5 billion to $7 billion(currently about rmb 35.276 billion to rmb 49.386 billion) of large-scale financing,the company's valuation is expected to reach us$150 billion (currently approximately rmb 1.06 trillion).

it is reported that in this round of financing, openai set the minimum investment amount at us$250 million (currently about rmb 1.764 billion).

this round of financing was led by thrive capital, which pledged to invest us$1 billion (currently about rmb 7.055 billion). it home attached other participating companies as follows:

• microsoft, nvidia and apple are also in talks to invest, with a total investment of between $2 billion and $3 billion (currently about rmb 14.11 billion to rmb 21.166 billion).

• tiger global management and abu dhabi’s artificial intelligence investment fund mgx have also joined the talks, hoping to acquire a certain stake

microsoft is already the largest investor in openai, with a stake of about $13 billion (currently about rmb 92.714 billion). apple and openai are already connected, and the former is integrating chatgpt into its new ai feature suite apple intelligence. however, apple originally planned to serve as an observer on the board of directors of openai together with microsoft, but this plan was canceled in july.

currently, investors such as microsoft receive profit-sharing agreements rather than traditional equity.