{"id":137632,"date":"2025-10-02T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137632"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:16:31","slug":"openai-valuation-hits-us500-billion-passes-spacex-as-worlds-largest-start-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137632","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI valuation hits US$500 billion, passes SpaceX as world\u2019s largest start-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostOpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a US$500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT creator past Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to become the world\u2019s largest start-up.<br \/>\nCurrent and former OpenAI employees sold about US$6.6 billion of stock to investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp, Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi\u2019s MGX and T Rowe Price, a person familiar with the transaction said.<br \/>\nThat boosted San Francisco-based OpenAI\u2019s price tag well past&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3327625\/openai-valuation-reaches-us500-billion-vaults-past-spacex-worlds-largest-start?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostOpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a US$500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT creator past Elon&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}