Openai is looking for additional capital of investors as part of his 40 billion dollars -round -round

Openai addiction Capital of new and existing investors, two people familiar with the plans of the company tell. The fundraisers are part of a 40 -billion dollar round announced in March. According to one of the sources, the round will be reopened on Monday, July 28th, which have direct knowledge of the fundraisers.

The $ 40 billion round Announced at the beginning of this year The evaluation of Openai up to 300 billion US dollars made it one of the most valued private startups in history. The round was headed by the Japanese investment conglomerate Softbank, which had committed to 75 percent of total financing. The initial tranche was 10 billion US dollars at 7.5 billion US dollars from Softbank and another 2.5 billion US dollars from a syndicate of other investors. Openaai currently collects the final $ 30 billion with Softbank 22.5 from Softbank and $ 7.5 in a syndicate of other investors.

The commitment of Softbank could be shortened Wired confirmed to 10 billion US dollars, if Openai was not restructured by the end of the year.

According to the PitchBook, Openaai has collected a total of 63.92 billion dollars since the company was founded in 2015. The supporters include a wide range of institutional and individual investors, including Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Coatue Management, Nvidia and Reid Hoffman. The relationship between Microsoft and Openai is closely intertwined. Microsoft offers Openai a lot of cloud computing resources and Openai, which Microsoft grants exclusive access to its best models -although it has recently been reported that their relationship has that their relationship has Complications.

Among other things, Openaai has also teamed up with Softbank at a four-year AI data center project, which is expected to invest more than $ 500 billion. The Wall Street Journal Registered at the beginning of this week The fact that the two companies were across certain aspects of the partnership, including the construction of the data centers, and that the Openai CEO Sam Altman tries to sign business for the data centers organized by Stargate without the Japanese company.

In a joint explanation to WIRED, Softbank and Openaai said: “The 500 -billion dollars commitment of Stargate for the establishment of 10 GW new computing capacity in the USA is no longer a vision. We are urgently moving on site and deals with the future. If the future will step up and serve humanity.”

The company structure of Openaai was also a dispute and has evaluated Elon Musk, who brought the research laboratory with the mission to secure humanity from artificial general intelligence or AGI. After Musk left the company’s board at the beginning of 2018, Openaai created a profit -oriented arm, partly to make it easier to promote donations. Last year Muschus sued Openai For the alleged task of his original mission and said that the company is “not only the development, but also refines an AGI to maximize the profits for Microsoft, and not just for the benefit of humanity”.

In May Openai suggested a new structure This keeps the non -profit organization through the company and transforms its current non -profit subsidiary into a public performance society. This new non -profit organization would keep shares in the PBC, and the PBC would theoretically design to prioritize the returns for shareholders and at the same time pursue projects with clear public advantages. The investment of Softbank in Openai depends on the fact that this new structure will be approved by the lawyers General in California and Delaware by the beginning of next year.

Additional reporting by Kylie Robison and Zoë Schiffer.

Update 22.07.25 15:10 PM EST: This story has been updated to record a joint explanation by Openaai and Softbank.