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    OpenAI reportedly considering new funding at a $1.2 trillion–$1.5 trillion valuation

    A September 16 AI-news roundup describes early talks at a $1.2 trillion valuation, up from $852 billion in March, and says investors apparently initiated them.

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    A September 16 AI-news roundup says OpenAI was discussing another funding round at a $1.2 trillion valuation after raising $122 billion six months earlier. It describes the talks as early and apparently investor-initiated. Separately, a Grok reply quotes a New York Times headline about possible financing at a $1.5 trillion valuation. The reply cites CNBC sources saying OpenAI was not actively engaging, had a strong balance sheet and declined comment. Grok also says no decisions had been made.

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    Gabriel@gabriel_horwitzAI NEWS WAS NONSTOP TODAY. Here's a full breakdown: 1. OpenAI is discussing another funding round at a $1.2tn valuation, up from $852bn in March. The talks are still early and were apparently initiated by investors, because raising $122bn six months ago was somehow not enough. 2. Meta launched Meta One, a paid subscription spanning Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp with 50+ AI, creation, analytics and business features. Plans start at $2.99/month, while the phased rollout has already accumulated 15m subscriptions + trials. 3. Salesforce launched AIforce, an interface layer that lets external models and agents access Salesforce data, workflows, permissions and business logic. It also released Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, built from Nvidia Nemotron and trained on synthetic scenarios modeled after 27 years of Salesforce deployments. 4. OpenAI is reportedly coordinating AI safety work with Anthropic and Google DeepMind without seeking the antitrust exemption Anthropic previously proposed. OpenAI also endorsed three bipartisan biosecurity bills and a provision requiring frontier labs to give independent evaluators access to their models. 5. MediaTek launched the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first smartphone chip manufactured using TSMC’s 2nm process. Its neural processor is reportedly 51% faster at processing prompts than the previous generation, pushing more generative AI directly onto phones instead of the cloud. 6. Coding-agent startup Factory raised $200m at a $5bn valuation, more than tripling its value. Founded in 2023, it is competing with Cursor and Cognition to become the platform large companies use to build, test and maintain software through fleets of agents. 7. The Gates Foundation committed at least $1bn over two years to expand AI access across healthcare, education and agriculture. Part of the money will fund local data and language support so models actually work outside the small group of countries generating most of their training data. 8. European chip startup Axelera launched Europa, its second-generation inference chip, with support planned inside Dell and Supermicro systems. Axelera says it already has 600+ customers, signed contracts worth tens of millions and another $1.5bn of potential sales, although that last figure is a pipeline rather than actual orders. 9. New York recommended that new data centers invest at least $1m per megawatt of power demand into their surrounding communities. A one-gigawatt AI campus would therefore imply $1bn of local investment, recognition that these facilities consume enormous amounts of infrastructure without creating many permanent jobs. 10. Meta is reportedly preparing camera-free smart glasses called Luna with six microphones, speakers and direct access to Meta AI + Muse. They could be unveiled next week and ship in October, basically turning smart glasses back into a Bluetooth headset with an AI agent inside. JUST ANOTHER NORMAL DAY IN AI.22d
    Sammie@nexgencodedOpenAI is reportedly discussing a new round at a $1.2 TRILLION valuation they postponed the IPO because AI might be moving too fast then apparently looked at the valuation and said ok but the funding round can still walk briskly @OpenAI 😭21d
    Grok@grokYes, the NYT headline states “OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation.” Reports detail early, investor-initiated talks around $1.2T–$1.5T. CNBC sources say OpenAI is not actively engaging, has a strong balance sheet, and declined comment. No decisions have been made.21d

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    Gabriel@gabriel_horwitzAI NEWS WAS NONSTOP TODAY. Here's a full breakdown: 1. OpenAI is discussing another funding round at a $1.2tn valuation, up from $852bn in March. The talks are still early and were apparently initiated by investors, because raising $122bn six months ago was somehow not enough. 2. Meta launched Meta One, a paid subscription spanning Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp with 50+ AI, creation, analytics and business features. Plans start at $2.99/month, while the phased rollout has already accumulated 15m subscriptions + trials. 3. Salesforce launched AIforce, an interface layer that lets external models and agents access Salesforce data, workflows, permissions and business logic. It also released Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, built from Nvidia Nemotron and trained on synthetic scenarios modeled after 27 years of Salesforce deployments. 4. OpenAI is reportedly coordinating AI safety work with Anthropic and Google DeepMind without seeking the antitrust exemption Anthropic previously proposed. OpenAI also endorsed three bipartisan biosecurity bills and a provision requiring frontier labs to give independent evaluators access to their models. 5. MediaTek launched the Dimensity 9600 Pro, its first smartphone chip manufactured using TSMC’s 2nm process. Its neural processor is reportedly 51% faster at processing prompts than the previous generation, pushing more generative AI directly onto phones instead of the cloud. 6. Coding-agent startup Factory raised $200m at a $5bn valuation, more than tripling its value. Founded in 2023, it is competing with Cursor and Cognition to become the platform large companies use to build, test and maintain software through fleets of agents. 7. The Gates Foundation committed at least $1bn over two years to expand AI access across healthcare, education and agriculture. Part of the money will fund local data and language support so models actually work outside the small group of countries generating most of their training data. 8. European chip startup Axelera launched Europa, its second-generation inference chip, with support planned inside Dell and Supermicro systems. Axelera says it already has 600+ customers, signed contracts worth tens of millions and another $1.5bn of potential sales, although that last figure is a pipeline rather than actual orders. 9. New York recommended that new data centers invest at least $1m per megawatt of power demand into their surrounding communities. A one-gigawatt AI campus would therefore imply $1bn of local investment, recognition that these facilities consume enormous amounts of infrastructure without creating many permanent jobs. 10. Meta is reportedly preparing camera-free smart glasses called Luna with six microphones, speakers and direct access to Meta AI + Muse. They could be unveiled next week and ship in October, basically turning smart glasses back into a Bluetooth headset with an AI agent inside. JUST ANOTHER NORMAL DAY IN AI.22d
    Sammie@nexgencodedOpenAI is reportedly discussing a new round at a $1.2 TRILLION valuation they postponed the IPO because AI might be moving too fast then apparently looked at the valuation and said ok but the funding round can still walk briskly @OpenAI 😭21d
    Grok@grokYes, the NYT headline states “OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation.” Reports detail early, investor-initiated talks around $1.2T–$1.5T. CNBC sources say OpenAI is not actively engaging, has a strong balance sheet, and declined comment. No decisions have been made.21d