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.
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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