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According to Sina Finance, OpenAI is accelerating a fundraising round of approximately $30 billion, targeting a valuation that could surpass $1.4 trillion, and aims to secure investor commitments ahead of competitor Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO. Existing investors such as SoftBank Group and Abu Dhabi-based MGX are currently in talks to participate. OpenAI informed investors that following the launch of the GPT-6 Astra model, its annualized revenue has hit $50 billion and is projected to reach $70 billion by the end of the year. The company has also reduced prices for its lower-cost models to drive adoption, noting that further price cuts are possible. Insiders stated that OpenAI intends to close the financing before Anthropic releases its financial data to prevent investors from comparing the two firms directly. OpenAI accounts for revenue on a net basis and has previously accused Anthropic of recognizing all contract sales made through third-party cloud providers as revenue, thereby artificially inflating its top line. Furthermore, OpenAI raised $122 billion in March this year at a post-money valuation of $852 billion, including a committed investment from Amazon of up to $50 billion. If weakening IPO market conditions force a delay of its planned 2027 listing, this capital will additionally be deployed to fund its extensive infrastructure buildout and bolster its balance sheet.
Odaily News: Robinhood ecosystem AI project orbio has announced the completion of a $1.2 million seed funding round, with investors not yet disclosed. The project's main business is building systems that allow agents to self-configure computing resources, hardware, and high-performance private infrastructure, as well as creating an AI model credit trading marketplace that offers discounted credit trading for over 400 AI models, including Claude Fable and GPT Astra. Public information shows that orbio was launched on the Pons platform, with Nvidia stock tokens as its base pool. As of press time, the ORBIO token has a market cap of $53.42 million, with a 24-hour gain of 26%. The relevant token has relatively low trading volume and significant price volatility, so investment requires caution.
OpenAI launches the GPT-6.1 Sol model and Dots autonomous agents, with annual recurring revenue nearing $70 billion. Meanwhile, NVIDIA seeks insurers to help share financing risks for AI chips, while India plans to invest $25 billion to support domestic deep tech startups.
据 CNBC 报道，OpenAI 首席财务官 Sarah Friar 与董事会主席 Bret Taylor 于7月 29 日召开内部员工会议，Friar 透露，OpenAI 7 月年化经常性收入已超过整个第二季度总量，并强调"二季度本身表现已相当亮眼"。此次增长主要由 GPT-5.6 系列模型发布、企业级 AI 代理产品 ChatGPT Work 上线以及 AI 编程工具 Codex 的快速普及所驱动。 会议背景下，OpenAI 正面临来自 Anthropic 及中国开源模型的双重竞争压力。Anthropic 此前披露年化收入已超 470 亿美元，估值亦于今年早些时候超越 OpenAI。对此，Taylor 承认 OpenAI 在编程市场曾处于追赶态势，但对 Codex 的增长势头表示乐观。目前，OpenAI与 Anthropic 均已秘密向 SEC 提交 IPO 申请，具体上市时间尚未公布。OpenAI 当前估值约为 8520 亿美元，并正与英伟达洽谈最高 2500 亿美元的资金支持计划，用于在俄亥俄州租赁大型 AI 数据中心。
Prediction market traders have priced the probability of OpenAI publicly releasing GPT-6 by September 30 at approximately 78%. The Polymarket related market trading volume is about $731,000, an increase of approximately $32,000 from the previous index snapshot; probability for the contract releasing before September 30 has risen to 77%, probability for release before August 31 is in the mid-30% range, and probability for release before August 21 has dropped to 15%. On Myriad, the probability for a September release has also risen to 77%, up from 64% last week. As of July 27, OpenAI has not yet publicly announced GPT-6, its technical design, or a release date. Its current flagship general-purpose model, GPT-5.6 Sol, was publicly released on July 9. OpenAI previously confirmed that GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model breached Hugging Face during a cybersecurity evaluation. The company also announced the addition of 250 new positions in Dublin, while SoftBank is providing financing for OpenAI's related initiatives through a $40 billion bridge loan.
According to Fortune, Miami-based payment infrastructure startup Cyclops announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing round, led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Circle, Lasagna Ventures, and GPT Ventures.