OpenAIhas managed to raise an investment of $6.6 billion in its latest investment round, bringing the company’s total valuation to $157 billion. ChatGPT OpenAI, which attracted attention due to its success, remained the world’s largest and leading artificial intelligence company.

The support that OpenAI received in the new investment round went down in history as one of the largest investments ever made in one go. Also Open AI Elon Musk’s firm SpaceX and owner of TikTok ByteDans has become one of the three largest investment-backed companies. Yet these investments and support are not enough for OpenAI.

‘Do not support rival initiatives’

OpenAI from Investors Anthropic and Elon Musk xAI He asked them to refrain from supporting rival initiatives such as. Of course, as a $157 billion company, OpenAI didn’t just ask for special financing options from investors. In this way, the company wants to prevent its competitors from gaining access to the funds.

On the other hand, such an agreement could be a boon for investors in the future. Special antitrust ruleswhich could make it more difficult to realize OpenAI’s request. It can cause problems if an organization that is already a leader in the market also makes special agreements and denies its competitors access to resources.

Artificial intelligence As the number of players in the market increases, so does competition. Companies like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are simultaneously investing in many artificial intelligence investments and are not in favor of such restrictive agreements.