OpenAI gets new $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank, allowing employees to sell shares in a tender offer

OpenAI is allowing employees to sell roughly $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, CNBC has learned.The new financing will allow the Japanese tech conglomerate to get an even larger slice of the AI startup, and it will allow current and former OpenAI employees to cash out their shares, two people familiar with the matter told CNBC.Employees will have until Dec. 24 to decide if they want to participate in the new tender offer, which has not previously been reported, a person familia ...