Nvidia Apple Shot, To Invest In Openai

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WisdomOn the 8th and 30th news, according to foreign media quoted people familiar with the matter, Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft have negotiated to join Openai's new round of financing, and the financing amount will reach billions of dollars.This will make OPENAI valuations more than $ 100 billion.This round of financing is led by VCAPital.Thrive Capital will invest about $ 1 billion.According to Bloomberg Society quoted people familiar with the matter, Nvidia has discussed about $ 100 million.It is unclear how much Apple and Microsoft will invest in Openai in this round.

If the negotiation progress is smooth, this will mean that the three technology companies with the highest market value worldwide—— Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft -will all become investors of OpenAI.Microsoft is a funder of Openai and has invested about $ 13 billion.Microsoft closely integrates OpenAI's services into its Windows and Copilot AI platforms, and betting on these capabilities will help promote growth.

As a globalAI chip supplier, Nvidia has worked closely with Openai for a long time, providing OpenAI training and running generation AI models requiredKey infrastructure.OpenAI is one of the users of Nvidia AI chips, and has used tens of thousands of chips to train its AI system.Apple and Openai are also partners.

This summer, Apple announcedOpenai became the first official partner of Apple Intelligence.The smartphone giant also plans to get the board observer of the board of directors with Microsoft, but these plans were abandoned in July.

investOpenai may complicate Apple and other AI companies to become a neutral partner.For apples that are usually not investing in founding, this move is unusual.Over the years, Apple has invested a lot of investment partners, partly because it is to ensure the supply of equipment and components.In 2017, Apple invested $ 1 billion in the vision of Japanese SoftBank.The reason why Apple spokesman revealed at the time was that it would accelerate the development of technology that may have strategic importance to Apple.In 2016, Apple also invested $ 1 billion in Didi Chuxing, a Chinese online car company. At that time, Apple was at the early stage of trying to make its own electric vehicles, but it canceled this plan earlier this year.According to the Wall Street Journal recently, Apple has increased investment in internal AI in the past year and a half to try to build its own ability.

In the past two years, Nvidia has increased its investment and investedHot AI companies such as Inflection AI and DataBricks, as well as small startups involving AI drug research and development and robotics technology.

People familiar with the matter revealed thatOpenai CFO, Sarah Friar, told employees in a memorandum on Wednesday that the company was seeking new funds but did not disclose details.According to Bloomberg, at least since December last year, OpenAI has been discussing at $ 100 billion orHigher valuations for financing.This financing will support one of the world's most valuable venture capital startups.Know

The lover said that Friel said in the memo to the employee,Openai will use this financing to obtain more computing power and provide funds for other operating costs.The huge success of ChatGPT has triggered the arms race between technology companies.They are integrating AI technology into their own products and provide funds for other promising startups.The influence of large technology companies on AI is being reviewed.The European Union and the United States regulatory agencies have expressed concern about the dominant position of Nvidia in the field of AI chips and the close relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI.