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OpenAI Hits $500 Billion Valuation, Overtakes SpaceX as World’s Most Valuable Startup

Munish Gupta Munish Gupta
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Published on October 9, 2025
OpenAI is now the worlds most valuable startup at 500B dollar

By means of a secondary share sale, OpenAI has attained an incredible new level in the artificial intelligence sector and become the world’s most valuable $500 billion startup. That financial jump comes next with a daring strategic move into interactive data collecting.

Early in October, OpenAI brought in nearly $6.6 billion by assisting employees and former workers in selling their assets. Worth $500 billion, that deal pushed the corporation past SpaceX to be perhaps the most costly private startup in the whole world. OpenAI boosts secondary share sale to a staggering $10.3 billion among Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, MGX from Abu Dhabi, and T. Rowe Price were among the secondary sale investors in October.

#OpenAI has completed a secondary share sale worth about $6.6 billion, allowing current and former employees to cash out part of their holdings.

Following the deal, the company’s valuation hit $500 billion, making the #ChatGPT creator the world’s most valuable private startup. pic.twitter.com/aCalKK81fN

— Denistratos (@SoJustFollowMe) October 6, 2025

Open AI new funding to build towards AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) earlier in 2025, OpenAI’s previous value was around $300 billion; hence, this increase is somewhat drastic in context. Even if the incoming funds raise investor confidence, questions concerning OpenAI’s profitability persist. The company spends significantly on infrastructure to enable long-term growth, which makes OpenAI the world’s most valuable startup among the globe.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Simultaneous with its valuation growth, OpenAI The world’s most valuable startup has offered $500 million to purchase startup game data to help its artificial intelligence capabilities. First referred to, the plan calls for the target firm to concentrate on user interaction logs, game mechanics, and behavioural analysis, a deep well of organised, dynamic information that could improve artificial intelligence education beyond static text or image sources. Sources claim that OpenAI sees game worlds as a fertile ground to teach models about decision-making, strategies, and human-agent relations.

These changes portray a company leaning greatly toward both capital and competence. The gaming-data proposal reveals OpenAI’s eagerness to search for proprietary, high-value data and AI; however, a $500-billion valuation provides for enough financial clout. So far, the gaming-data agreement would revolutionize the way that AI firms search for training resources, with the scales tipped toward dynamic, behavior-rich sources. There are still considerable hazards, however, especially in light of privacy, regulatory inquiry, and scaling costs.

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