OpenAI is in discussions to raise $30 billion from investors in a new funding round that would value the company at $1.4 trillion, according to Bloomberg Markets and Finnhub. The round represents a substantial increase from previous fundraising valuations. Finnhub reported that the funding push accompanies a delay of OpenAI's initial public offering to 2027.
Microsoft holds a significant existing strategic and financial stake in OpenAI, making it the primary publicly traded instrument with a concrete ownership connection to this funding event. The terms and investor composition of the new round have not been fully disclosed in the cluster sources.
The Federal Trade Commission has separately opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies over product safety practices, according to Cnbc TOP. The FTC probe, which followed a Hugging Face security incident, represents a concurrent regulatory development directly involving OpenAI as the subject of both the funding round and the investigation.
Sources: Bloomberg Markets, Marketwatch TOP, Cnbc TOP, FT Companies, CoinTelegraph