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$40B into the furnace: As OpenAI adds a million users an hour, the race for enterprise AI dominance hits a new gear

April 1, 2025
In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion — making it the largest private equity investment on record. The landmark investment underscores the escalating significance of AI, and also signals a shift in the enterprise technology landscape. With…
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OpenAI Launches Responses API & Agents SDK for Developers

March 12, 2025
OpenAI is rolling out a new suite of APIs and tools designed to help developers and enterprises build AI-powered agents more efficiently. These are delivered atop some of the very same technology powering its own first-party AI agents Deep Research (which scours the internet independently to develop richly researched, well organized and cited reports) and Operator (its tool for controlling a web…
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OpenAI strikes content deal with Condé Nast, raising questions about future of publishing

August 26, 2024
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has reached an agreement with Condé Nast, the publisher behind Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired, in a move that could reshape the media landscape. The multi-year partnership grants OpenAI access to Condé Nast’s extensive content archive while providing the publisher with advanced technology tools.   We’re partnering with Condé Nast to deepen the…
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OpenAI acquires Rockset to strengthen its retrieval capabilities

June 24, 2024
OpenAI is moving to strengthen its technology stack. The company today announced it has acquired Rockset, a vendor known for providing a real-time analytics database to power intelligent enterprise applications. While the terms of the deal remain undisclosed, OpenAI has confirmed that it will integrate Rockset’s “word-class indexing and querying” capabilities to strengthen its retrieval…
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