OpenAI hits $500B valuation, surpassing SpaceX as world’s largest startup

Tether is estimated to be the crypto company closest to rivaling OpenAI’s $500 billion valuation, far ahead of Coinbase, Ripple and Circle.

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has become the world’s largest startup after reaching a $500 billion valuation in a secondary share sale. 

Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reported on Thursday that current and former OpenAI employees sold $6.6 billion in stock to investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi’s MGX and T.Rowe Price. 

The investment round boosted OpenAI's valuation to $500 billion, leapfrogging Elon Musk’s startup SpaceX, which has a market capitalization of about $400 billion. The company also dwarfed startups ByteDance and Anthropic, which are valued at $220 billion and $183 billion, respectively. 

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