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OpenAI Valuation Reaches $500 Billion After Employee Stock-Sale Deal, Bloomberg Says, Citing Source

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-- ChatGPT owner OpenAI surpassed SpaceX as the largest startup after a deal to sell employee-owned stock pushed the company to a $500 billion valuation, according to an unidentified person in a Bloomberg report.

-- Current and former employees sold about $6.6 billion worth of stock to investors that include Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi's MGX and T. Rowe Price, the report said.

-- The deal brings OpenAI's valuation beyond the previous $300 billion valuation level reached in financing rounds earlier this year, putting it above that of Elon Musk's SpaceX, the report said. 




  Full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/openai-completes-share-sale-at-record-500-billion-valuation?srnd=homepage-americas 





  Write to Adriano Marchese at adriano.marchese@wsj.com 





  (END) Dow Jones Newswires



  October 02, 2025 07:13 ET (11:13 GMT)


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