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With investments of these huge amounts (similar to Anthropic's recent investment), do they actually get a full 1.7B€ deposited into their bank account? Or does
by Tehnix 1y ago
With investments of these huge amounts (similar to Anthropic's recent investment), do they actually get a full 1.7B€ deposited into their bank account? Or does it work in some other way?
- cgeier 1y agoI'm also wondering this. It also doesn't seem to be a coincidence, that ASML is an integral part of the semiconductor value chain.
- scrollaway 1y agoIt works whatever way is agreed upon between them and the investors. For such large amounts it’s unlikely to be pure cash (there’s likely some amount of services somewhere in there), and they won’t be calling for all that cash at once. The cash that is guaranteed is sent as soon as the investee needs it (they do what is called a capital call). Early stage startups and investments just do one capital call for the full amount, but larger amounts are often committed for periods of time; this also helps the investors schedule their own cash flow: for example if I have 500m this year and 500m next year, I can invest 1b in you, given the right schedule.
- rdos 1y agoAnthropic has much more funding than that. Most recent one was at $13B at the one before was at $3.5B. Now imagine that GPT recieved $40B in one round!
- elAhmo 1y agoGPT is not a company
- noosphr 1y agoNeither is OpenAI, but here we are.
- mkl 1y agoOpenAI, Inc. is a company, and it owns other companies including OpenAI Holdings, LLC and OpenAI Global, LLC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
- noosphr 1y ago>In May 2025, the nonprofit renounced plans to cede control of OpenAI after outside pressure.
- mkl 1y agoThe nonprofit is OpenAI, Inc., a company: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5902936 https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5902936. Look at how many times the word "company" is used in the Wikipedia article.
- elAhmo 1y agoRegardless of non-profit shenanigans, OpenAI is an entity. GPT is a type of LLM, which is not specific to OpenAI, other companies use this as well.
- rdos 1y agomy bad, but you know what I meant