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OpenAI Becomes World's Largest Startup With $500 Bln Valuation
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1:42Now PlayingOpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, making it the world's largest startup. Current and former OpenAI employees sold about $6.6 billion of stock to investors, a person familiar with the transaction said. That boosted the ChatGPT owner's price tag well past its previous $300 billion level during a SoftBank-led financing round earlier this year. Bloomberg's Manuel Baigorri reports.
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