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🚨 JUST IN: OpenAI closes in on record-breaking $100B+ funding round that could push valuation past $850B, Bloomberg reports. https://t.co/Hyb6ZQ9s19 ...

OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of a new funding round that is likely to bring in more than $100 billion, sources say https://t.co/rPLxh4moTn ...

OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of a new funding round that is likely to bring in more than $100 billion, sources say https://t.co/NCFZJcneG5 ...

Anthropic is nearing the completion of a deal to raise more than $20 billion in a funding round co-led by investors including Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, D.E. Shaw and Dragoneer, according to sources https://t.co/UCkNlt8v5d ...

Anthropic closes in on $20B round https://t.co/4u2gqel9qv ...

Whimo says [music] it's just closed a new funding round, $16 billion at 126 billion post money, nearly triple the valuation at its last raise. The round was led by three new names joining the cap table. Dragonir, DST Global, and Seoia.Returning investors Andre Horowitz, Bessemer, and Mubadala Capital, the sovereign investment firm based in Abu Dhabi, also invested in a raise that was reportedly 3x overs subscribed. Now, Alphabet, it remains the majority owner, as they have in past rounds. Bloomberg had repo ...

So Whimo reportedly set to close a $16 billion round as soon as this month, valuing the business near $110 billion. Alphabet is expected to supply most of that capital with new names like Sequoia, DST Global, and Dragon now in the mix in a round that is said to be three times oversubscribed. Now Whimo won't discuss the financing, but its spokesperson pointed to traction.More than 20 million trips completed so far, and that's what these private market investors are paying up for. commercial scale, a fair cha ...

Waymo reportedly raising a $16 billion funding round https://t.co/AOOWTGOyp1 ...

Mesh Connect secured a $1 billion valuation after a recent $75 million funding round https://t.co/IjKyRrludH ...