Sam raises the biggest private round $8.3B (part of a $40B round). What we know:
- 5M paying ChatGPT biz users
- $12B ARR conservative forecast for 2025 ($20B optimistic)
- Led by Dragoneer ($2.8B check) plus Blackstone, a16z, Sequoia, Tiger Global, Altimeter, and others
- The round is… fuck!.. 5x oversubscribed!
In parallel, Anthropic is raising $5B at a $170B valuation, led by Iconiq. The next gen of trillion-dollar corps is being built in real time. What a moment!
#OpenAI #Anthropic #Fundraising
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