Nvidia and Apple are reportedly in talks to contribute to OpenAI’s subsequent fundraising spherical — a spherical that would worth the ChatGPT maker at $100 billion.
Per its sources, the New York Times says earlier OpenAI investor Thrive Capital would lead the deal ought to it occur. (Bloomberg was the primary to report Nvidia’s involvement, and The WSJ broke the story of Apple’s potential curiosity.) Microsoft — which already owns 49% of OpenAI — might take part as nicely.
OpenAI wants capital. Its annualized income reportedly eclipsed $3.4 billion early this 12 months, but it surely’s stated to be on monitor to lose $5 billion by 12 months finish because it expands its AI coaching and staffing efforts.
OpenAI has ties to each corporations. It runs and trains its generative AI fashions totally on Nvidia GPUs; in the meantime Apple earlier this 12 months agreed to combine ChatGPT into iOS as a part of Apple’s forthcoming suite of AI options, Apple Intelligence.
