Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer of OpenEE Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI Data Center at Ebalin, Texas, US, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
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Openai has finalized the total sale of a total sales of $ 6.6 billion, allowing the current and former employees to sell stocks in a record of $ 500 billion, according to the transaction person.
Bloomberg was first reported to report that the deal was closed.
CNBC Informed In August that Openai wanted to operate a secondary share sales on an evaluation of $ 500 billion, With investors Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoner Investment Group, Abu Dhabi’s MGX, and T. Rowe Price.
While Openai was authorized $ 10.3 billion in shares for sale -Mool $ 6 billion with a target of growth-The hand of two-thirds of that amount finally changed.
The person who was briefed on internal discussions said that low participation is being seen internally as a vote of belief in the company’s long-term possibilities, and there is a sign that the investor remains stronger, even on the evaluation of $ 500 billion-faster than $ 300 billion at the beginning of this year.
The proposal was presented to the eligible current and former employees in early September, in which participation was open to those who shared shares for more than two years.
The share sales marks the second major tender proposal of Openai in less than a year. $ 1.5 billion deal with SoftBank in November,
It seams as the status of the latest transaction Openai The world’s most valuable private companyCrossing SpaceX’s evaluation of $ 456 billion.
There is also a sales between acute competition for AI talent. MetaEspecially, Allegedly introduced Nine-condensed compensation package in a bid for the recruitment of top researchers.
Openai is one of the growing cohies of high-profile startups-including SpaceX, Stripe and Databricics-using medical sales that allow employees to remain private while remaining private. The move is widely seen as a strategy to reward long -term employees without maintaining talent and chasing the IPO.
