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OpenAI $30B at $1.25T, DeepSeek grabs $15B — AI News Oct 23
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Episode OpenAI $30B at $1.25T, DeepSeek grabs $15B — AI News Oct 23
- OpenAI is raising $30B at a $1.25T valuation led by Coatue and UAE investors, with a separate compute-capacity deal bundled into the round; the company plans $600B in compute spend by 2030.
- DeepSeek raised $15B led by Tencent and CATL, 48 hours after Washington ordered federal agencies to remove its products; Beijing approved DeepSeek and MiniMax models for global use.
- Meta posted $34.9B in quarterly capex with negative free cash flow; Anthropic's public S-1 is reportedly imminent with a $1.5-2T IPO target.
- The practitioner take: the price you pay per million tokens is a derivative of these cap tables — inference pricing is the real story.
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