估值升至5000亿美元！OpenAI洽谈出售“数十亿美元”员工股权

Group 1 - OpenAI is seeking to conduct secondary market transactions for employee equity, with its valuation soaring to $500 billion, a significant increase from $15 billion two years ago, representing a 33-fold rise [1] - The company is negotiating a multi-billion dollar equity sale that would allow current and former employees to liquidate their holdings, with existing investors like Thrive Capital expressing interest in acquiring some employee shares [3] - Since 2021, OpenAI employees and former employees have cashed out nearly $3 billion through multiple equity sales, with SoftBank purchasing about half of this amount [3] Group 2 - OpenAI has been active in recent financing activities, completing a $40 billion funding round at a $300 billion valuation, led by SoftBank, and recently receiving an additional $8.3 billion from an investor consortium, which was oversubscribed by approximately five times [3] - The company has demonstrated strong performance in technological innovation, launching several new products and platforms, including a new open-source platform and preparing for the release of its latest GPT-5 model, which supports its valuation increase and reinforces its technological leadership in the AI sector [3]