Openai has raised $ 8.3 billion in a valo of $ 300 billion, which has accelerated its plan to secure $ 40 billion in funding to the end. The latest round led by Dragoner Investment Group comes after the company raising $ 2.5 billion in March.
For the New York Times on Friday, Dragone committed $ 2.8 billion for Rising, representing about 10% of its total funds. The funding round brings Openai close to its 2025 target, including a $ 30 billion commitment to the softbank.
The Times said the funding round was five times higher, which means that investors wanted to invest about $ 40 billion. Openai preferred new strategic investors on existing backers, provoking some investors, who recalled small allocation, they have been hoped for them.
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Other investors include Blackstone, TPG, Sikoia Capital, Fidelity Management, Andresson Horovitz, Ultimeter Capital, Cotu Management, D1 Capital Partners, Thrive Capital and Tiger Global.
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A brief history of Openai
Openai was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutasavar and others, a non -profit research laboratory that was committed to ensuring humanity.
In 2019, it created a capped-profit subsidiary, openi LP, to increase out funding, acquired $ 1 billion from Microsoft and infection towards a more commercially operated model.
Openai experts account for international projects reported by Bloomberg in March to generate $ 12.7 billion in total revenue in 2025.
Recently, Deblbuk reported that the company’s annual recurring revenue has reached $ 13 billion and is expected to exceed $ 20 billion by the end of the year. In September, Openai reported to reach 1 million paid users for its business-focused Chatgpt schemes.
Chatgpt has also dominated its big language model contestants. Data from firstpage shows that it has maintained more than 70% of the LLM market share since January 2024.
Despite the increase in adoption, Openai does not expect cash-flow positive by 2029, when the revenue may be at the top of $ 125 billion.
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AI-centric crypto projects attract fresh enterprise capital
While Openai continues to attract record-prefection investment from traditional enterprise firms, the Crypto industry is carving its owners on AI. A girls of decentralized AI startups are collecting capital for the manufacture of open cars, tokens for the proprietary model.
In April, the AI Startup Nose Research raised $ 50 million in a series A round led by the paradigm, giving the company a price of $ 1 billion. Open-source AI model on Solana blockchain to provide decentralized options to platforms such as openi and deepsek.
In July, Poseidon raised $ 15 million in seed funding led by A16Z Crypto. The US-based full-stack AI data layer aims to solve the high-wallete, legally clear training data by providing a real-warder data set to the AI model, which can be used without copyright concerns.
Overall, the Crypto venture funding has increased to more than $ 10 billion in Q2 in 2025, its best quarter from the beginning of 2022.
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