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OpenAI Pursues Massive $100B Funding Round at $830B Valuation Amid Rising Compute Costs
December 19, 2025 13:32
OpenAI is reportedly seeking to raise up to $100 billion in funding that could value the company at $830 billion by the end of Q1 2026, potentially involving sovereign wealth funds. The fundraising effort comes as OpenAI...
OpenAI's o3 Reasoning Model May Cost Ten Times More Than Initially Estimated
April 2, 2025 20:21
The Arc Prize Foundation has revised its estimate of computing costs for OpenAI's o3 reasoning model, suggesting it may cost around $30,000 per task rather than the initially estimated $3,000. This significant cost refle...
OpenAI Expands GPT-4.5 Access Despite High Operational Costs
March 5, 2025 18:12
OpenAI has begun rolling out its largest AI model, GPT-4.5, to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, with the rollout expected to take 1-3 days. Despite being OpenAI's largest model with deeper world knowledge and higher emotional i...