OpenAI reaches 300B in valuation

April 03, 2025

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> valuation nearly 2x in the last 6 months

> largest private tech funding round ever: $40B led by Softbank

> funding could be cut by $10B if oAI doesn't transition to for-profit by year-end

> retains it's spot as the third most valuable unicorn in the world, behind SpaceX & Bytedance

> ChatGPT & Gemini tied for best overall model by popular opinion

> other tools with strong capabilities: Perplexity, Manus, DeepSeek

> average daily visits to tools in March according to TechCrunch:

> 500M weekly active users on ChatGPT by March-end

> Anthropic's report on how people use Sonnet 3.7 from 1M Claude conversations

> general rise in usage for coding, science, healthcare applications & education since release

> extended thinking mostly used for technical & creative problem-solving