Overview

• Current and former employees are negotiating a secondary sale of nearly $6 billion in OpenAI shares.
• Early-stage talks remain private and the transaction’s size and terms could shift before completion.
• Longtime backers SoftBank Group, Thrive Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group are named as prospective buyers.
• The proposed sale would value the AI startup at roughly $500 billion, a jump from its $300 billion valuation in March.
• OpenAI’s rapid growth—reaching 700 million weekly active users and a $12 billion annualized revenue run rate—drives investor demand.