{"id":191004,"date":"2025-10-02T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=191004"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:26:20","slug":"500b-chatgpt-developer-becomes-worlds-most-valuable-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/191004\/","title":{"rendered":"$500B: ChatGPT developer becomes world\u2019s most valuable startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>U.S.-based company OpenAI has become the world&rsquo;s most valuable private firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-02\/openai-completes-share-sale-at-record-500-billion-valuation?srnd=homepage-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports. The developer of ChatGPT is now valued at $500 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The new valuation came after current and former OpenAI employees sold $6.6 billion worth of shares to investors. Among the buyers were Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, MGX, and T. Rowe Price.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the world&rsquo;s most valuable private company was Elon Musk&rsquo;s space firm SpaceX, valued at $400 billion.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-based company OpenAI has become the world&rsquo;s most valuable private firm, Bloomberg reports. The developer of ChatGPT is now valued at $500 billion. The new valuation came after current and former OpenAI employees sold $6.6 billion worth of shares to investors. Among the buyers were Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, MGX, and T. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":190994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,101,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-economy","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191005,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191004\/revisions\/191005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}