OpenAI is in advanced discussions to form a joint venture with private equity firms, including TPG Inc., Brookfield Asset Management and Bain Capital, that would focus on bolstering adoption of its AI software, according to people familiar with the matter.
The joint venture would have a pre-money valuation of roughly $10 billion, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private information. The private equity investors would commit about $4 billion toward the venture, the people said.
TPG, Brookfield and Bain declined to comment. In a social media post Monday, Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s chief executive officer of applications, described the venture as “building a deployment arm” for its technology, without directly commenting on the participants, financing and valuation.
Reuters was first to report the discussions for a joint venture.
OpenAI and its rivals have been pushing to convince more business professionals to pay up for their services to offset the immense cost of developing AI systems and support their lofty valuations. Those efforts have focused on sectors such as financial services and health care.
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Last month, OpenAI also introduced a new product called Frontier that’s meant to allow organizations to build and manage AI agents more easily, with the goal of helping businesses simplify the process of rolling out the technology.
“We’re excited to not just be building these technologies but also building many ways for companies to deploy them and get impact,” Simo wrote on Monday.
The ChatGPT maker recently raised $110 billion in a deal that values the startup at $840 billion, including the money raised. OpenAI expects to bring in roughly another $10 billion from venture capital firms and sovereign wealth funds as the round progresses, Bloomberg News has reported.
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