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OpenAI Receives $4B Credit Line

OpenAI Receives $4B Credit Line of Credit

Above: OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman Image copyright: Stefano Guidi/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Facts

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) company and creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI, has received a $4B revolving credit line. This is on top of the $6.6B funding round it closed a day prior, bringing the company's liquidity to $10B.ChatGPT-creator OpenAI has received a $4B revolving credit line. This is on top of the $6.6B funding round it closed a day prior, bringing the company's liquidity to $10B.

  • OpenAI, whose latest investors include JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Santander, Wells Fargo, SMBC, UBS, and HSBC, has the option for an additional $2B on top of the $4B over three years.OpenAI — which counts JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Santander, Wells Fargo, SMBC, UBS, and HSBC among its recent investors — has the option for an additional $2B on top of the $4B over three years.


The Spin

OpenAI has gone through some tumultuous times, but it's still growing both financially and productivity-wise. Despite losing many of its founding executives and scientists, Sam Altman has still been able to push ahead with the development of GPT-5 and achieve another multi-billion-dollar funding round. OpenAI is enduring whatwhile all start-ups endure—balancing creativity with sound business practice.

Any shred of OpenAI's founding philosophy has now disappeared. With a profit-driven CEO and board, not to mention the liquidation of theits entire nonprofit side of the organization, the ChatGPT creator is moving full steam ahead toward one thing: money. Everyone fromknows former OpenAI employees to the general public know this won't be good for humanity, but itneither seems the govermentgovernment andnor the investment class aren'tseem doingto anything about itcare.


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