OpenAI Raised $10 Billion to Sell AI to 2,000 Companies. Your Competition Got There First.
openAI closed a $10 billion joint venture on May 4. Nineteen private equity firms. TPG, Brookfield, Advent, SoftBank, Dragoneer. All of them. Engineers embedded inside 2,000+ portfolio companies before OpenAI's expected IPO. Anthropic announced a matching $1.5 billion play the same day with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs,