, the startup behind the artificial intelligence tools and , will see its valuation jump at least 175% since its $300 million raise in the spring, thanks to a tender offer of employee stock.
Per a , will lead a deal to buy the OpenAI shares at a price that will value the artificial intelligence giant at at least $80 billion.
The deal was first late last month and makes OpenAI one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
In April, OpenAI picked up about $300 million from the likes of and at a valuation of around $29 billion.
The new secondary deal means that in about six months OpenAI鈥檚 value jumped 2.75x and values it at around 60x its annualized revenue, per a .
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OpenAI is not the AI company in the headlines.
China-based , a startup creating AI models and a Chinese competitor to OpenAI, announced that so far this year it has raised $342 million from backers like and .
Other investors in the company include and .
Zhipu released a generative AI chatbot in August based on its own models, and it is hoped by some the company can be the country鈥檚 version of OpenAi and to help lead an AI boom in China.
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