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Openai lifts the greatest financing round in history. It is a demonstration of the blind faith that the world has in AI

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Yesterday Openai gave colossal news. With the title “New financing to develop the AGI” announced that it has completed a new round of financing. Not only new: it is the largest in history for any private company. The figures here are more dizzy than ever, and they talk to us again of extraordinary expectations. We keep waiting for everything from AI, and OpenAi is taking advantage of it very well. Historical Financing Round. Never in history a private company had raised a similar financing round. Openai has raised 40,000 million dollars, an absolutely colossal figure. In October 2024 they already built 6,600 million dollarswho joined the “multimillionaire investment“Microsoft made in January 2023, and which is estimated was 10,000 million dollars. The Redmond company already He had invested 1,000 million dollars in 2019 and other 2,000 million In 2021. But they have to become ‘for-profit’. OpenAI will receive 10,000 million dollars immediately. Of these, 7,500 million dollars will come from SoftBank, while the other 2.5 billion will arrive from an “investor union.” The remaining 30,000 million will arrive at the end of the year, they indicate In CNBCbut only if the company manages to do the Transition to a company ‘For-Profit’that is, a company with profit. If they fail they will lose a quarter of the investment round. Of the total round, about 18,000 million dollars will be dedicated To the Stargate project. They are worth as much as Coca-Cola. The financing round causes the “post-money” assessment (after the round) of OpenAI to rise to 300,000 million dollars. It is already as much as Coca-ColaNovo Nordisk, Chevron or LVMH and more than Asml Samsung or Nestlé. Only Spacex (350,000 million dollars) is worth more in the private companies sector, and with this OpenAi round it is put to the Tiktok level According to CB Insights. 500 million in love with chatgpt. In the Openai announcement he indicated how they currently have 500 million weekly chatgpt users, a really remarkable figure that makes it clear that the growth of users continues to be produced at a remarkable pace: a month ago the figure was 400 million users. The Ghibli phenomenon shows. The chatgpt phenomenon made Openai take only two months to reach 100 million users (Instagram took 26). Yesterday Sam Altman indicated how in the last five days they had grown up in one million users, but after The phenomenon of the Studio Ghibli style images They grew up in a million users … in just an hour. But AI still does not be profitable. The financing round responds to that almost blind bet in the potential of the AI, but the current reality is clear: this technology is not profitable. The companies are burning money as if there were no tomorrow To develop it, but its training and operational cost is huge. Openai herself estimates that It will not be profitable until 2029and until then it will continue to lose more and more money without stopping. In Openai, yes, they expect income They triple In 2025 to 12.7 billion dollars, but they will continue to lose money. Gasoline for the AGI? Openai’s ultimate goal is to develop a General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) that overcomes human intelligence in all areas. The problem is that it is not clear that neither they nor anyone succeeded, but precisely that is about this bet: that it will be OpenAi to achieve it. To do so, the impact at the social and economic level is potentially the greatest in the history of humanity, but once again, we insist: here everything is unknowns, and the AGI could take years or decades to arrive … if it arrives one day. SoftBank, Openai’s new girlfriend. The other remarkable element of this investment round is the final turning point that occurs in the OpenAI alliances structure. Since 2019 his great ally was Microsoft, but That non-dilio was seen the seams months ago. The relationship between both companies is now much weaker, and each one It takes time preparing a “cordial farewell”. Microsoft has participated in this round, they claim in CNBC, but has done it with a totally secondary role. SoftBank, meanwhile, becomes the great OpenAi patron and trusts a good part of its future to the success of Altman’s company. Image | Nibor With Midjourney In Xataka | Openai will abandon altruism. Your new profit will completely change your financial reality and that of your investors

Anthropic lifts another 3.5 billion investment. It is just what they need to survive in an absolutely unleashed segment

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It’s as if money It is not over. At least in the case of AI, a sector in which spectacular investment rounds follow each other continuously. The confidence in startups and companies that work in AI models is extraordinary in the United States, and we have a last example of that AI fever. Anthropic lifts 3.5 billion dollars. The company has announced which has managed to complete a new investment round that will allow you to have 3.5 billion dollars from now on. It is not a figure as high as those they achieved OpenAI either XAI Recently, but it is still colossal. This time the great protagonists have not been Amazon or Google, but Lightspeed Venture Partners and other venture capital firms. It is worth more than Mercedes-Benz. That round makes the current assessment of Anthropic ascend to 61.5 billion dollars, an equally unique figure that would place it ahead of Mercedes-Benz (60,000 million dollars of valuation) if we equate that assessment with the market capitalization of the German automotive giant. But far from OpenAi. The investment round raised was going to be about 2,000 million dollars, but there was more demand than expected and finally raised much more money. Of course, its current assessment is still far from Openai’s, which is estimated to be around 300,000 million dollars. Money to continue working in AI. Those responsible for Anthropic point out how that new capital injection will allow them to continue developing “smarter and most capable AI systems that expand the ability that the human being can achieve.” Income is encouraged, but …. The projected income rate (Revenue Run Rate) of Anthropic was in 2024 of 1,000 million Ded Dolla, but now it is estimated that this rate has grown by 30%, a really fast pace. It is a remarkable figure, but it is probably well below what the company spends over a year to disappoint its models and maintain all its operational infrastructure. It is estimated which in 2024 spent 5.6 billion dollars. Claude 3.7 Sonnet animates things. The recent launch of its new hybrid model, Claude 3.7 Sonnethas once again demonstrated that the company is still a clear reference in this sector. The performance of this model is outstanding, especially in areas such as programming. But his future is complicated. Despite having one of the best generative products in the market, the company It depends absolutely on risk capital And of these investment rounds, at least for now. The competition is fierce And it also comes from companies with many more funds, which further complicates the thing for Anthropic. Investment in AI is unleashed. But for now it does not seem that the rhythm decays. The investment rounds continue to reach both these startups and companies already settled and the new ones that for example created recently Look Murati either Ilya Sutskever. The expectations about AI remain huge, and that continues to make money not stop. That is good news for the segment in general, but above all for Anthropic in particular. In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

Colombia reverses conflict with the US over deportations and Trump lifts sanctions

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The White House said this Sunday that Colombia backtracked and agreed to accept its deported citizens on military flights, after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions. The Trump administration will suspend planned tariffs and most sanctions, according to a White House statement. Minutes later, the chancellor of Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillo confirmed that his country considers “the impasse with the United States has been overcome” and that he accepts the terms of Trump’s repatriation policy. “We will continue to receive Colombian men and women who return as deportees,” the diplomat said in a press conference. The White House said in a statement that Colombia, Latin America’s fourth largest economy, agreed to “accept without restrictions all illegal aliens from Colombia returning from the United States.”even on US military aircraft, without limitations or delays.” Petro upset Trump “Today’s events make clear to the world that the United States is respected again,” the statement added. He added that “President Trump will continue to fiercely protect the sovereignty” of the United States and that he hopes that all nations “will cooperate fully to accept the deportation of their citizens who are illegally” in the country. Colombian President Gustavo Petro, the first leftist in power in the South American country, had angered Trump by refusing to accept military planes with Colombians deported from the United States. Petro said his country would welcome the migrants back, but “with dignity,” even on civilian planes. Keep reading:• Trump imposes tariffs and other sanctions on Colombia after Petro’s refusal to receive deportees• Petro offers presidential plane for the return of migrants from the US and calls on Celac• Tom Homan on mass deportation: “ICE agents from all over the country will be on the streets from the beginning”

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