Computerworld October 3, 2024
The company has also asked investors to avoid investing in two AI application firms — Perplexity and Glean.
OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion from investors like Thrive Capital and Tiger Global, but the AI company also sought assurances that investors would avoid funding five competing firms, according to a Reuters report.
The competitors include Anthropic, Elon Musk’s xAI, and Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup launched by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.
These companies directly compete with OpenAI in advancing large language models, a capital-intensive effort.
Additionally, OpenAI named two AI application firms — AI search startup Perplexity and enterprise search company Glean.
On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based startup announced it completed its latest funding round, reaching a $157 billion valuation —...