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financial news agency, october 3 (editor zhao hao)on wednesday (october 2) local time, the american artificial intelligence company openai announced on its official website that it had raised us$6.6 billion in its latest round of financing, with a post-financing valuation reaching us$157 billion.

if listed at a valuation of us$157 billion, openai's market value would exceed that of top investment bank goldman sachs group and uber, the world's largest mobility company. as of press time, goldman sachs' total market value is us$155.4 billion, and uber's is us$154.3 billion.

openai stated in a press release that the new funds raised will be used to expand the benefits of artificial intelligence (ai). "the new funds will allow us to double down on our leadership in cutting-edge ai research, increase computing capabilities, and continue to build help tools for people to solve tough problems.”

the press release did not mention the participating investors. people familiar with the matter revealed that this round of financing was led by thrive capital. it was previously reported that this venture capital institution invested us$1 billion. in addition, microsoft, nvidia, softbank group, etc. are also involved.

it has been nearly nine years since openai was founded, but the story of its rapid rise only began two years ago, when the company launched the chatbot chatgpt, bringing the concept of generative artificial intelligence into the mainstream and paving the way for tens of billions of dollars in ai infrastructure investment. leveled the road.