Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Key sources

1. SOURCE@cnbc · Oct 23, 3:20 AM · “OpenAI nears up to $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation led by UAE investors” · x.com
2. SUPPORT@iponewsroom_ · Oct 23, 3:22 AM · “OpenAI has already filed confidentially to go public, and CFO Sarah Friar has told employees a listing will likely come in 2027” · x.com
3. SUPPORT@edzitron · Oct 23, 3:21 AM · “Dubai made clammy sammy drop the valuation” · x.com
4. SUPPORT@zerohedge · Oct 20, 6:35 AM · “racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's expected IPO in mid-November” · x.com
5. SUPPORT@negligible_cap · Oct 20, 6:53 AM · “could value the ChatGPT maker at over $1.4 trillion, according to two people familiar with the matter” · x.com
6. SUPPORT@amanda_goodall · Oct 20, 6:53 AM · “UAE funds have been discussing as much as $10B together for this round” · x.com
7. SUPPORT@amanda_goodall · Oct 21, 12:47 AM · “In frontier models, that's Anthropic and OpenAI” · x.com
8. SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai · Oct 20, 3:06 PM · “OpenAI wants commitments before Anthropic’s filings invite side-by-side comparisons” · x.com