28 points armcat 1 hour ago 10 comments
xfour 23 minutes ago | parent
How many companies have a public market valuation over 1T, that seems like a lot
jordanb 18 minutes ago | parent
It's cheap if you buy the story that they're building a digital god to rule us all.
rbinv 6 minutes ago | parent
About 14:
Apple ($4.98T), NVIDIA ($4.51T), Microsoft ($3.94T), Alphabet ($3.49T), Amazon ($2.80T), TSMC ($1.95T), SpaceX ($1.82T), Saudi Aramco ($1.69T), Meta ($1.56T), Tesla ($1.42T), Broadcom ($1.40T), Berkshire Hathaway ($1.22T), Eli Lilly ($1.21T), (Walmart ($0.996T))
enraged_camel 18 minutes ago | parent
The story here is that Sam wanted to raise a lot more, but could not. Investors almost certainly want to see how the Anthropic IPO plays out before deciding whether to keep showering these companies with money.
naveen99 16 minutes ago | parent
Sam raised a $100B in previous round. I think a direct listing ipo would see their valuation go up to $4T, and then they could do some at the market sales as needed.
freecodeio 3 minutes ago | parent
why not just value it at 40T if we're all just throwing numbers randomly
bushbaba 12 minutes ago | parent
Valuation wouldn’t hold if public. He couldn’t raise the 30B he wanted. I’m not sure how much runway OpenAI has, but sounds like a similar to Anthropic story with valuation likely if in the public markets declining.
naveen99 17 minutes ago | parent
This valuation is a function of early accumulation of compute. They could rent it to Anthropic, or poach more Anthropic engineers.
fancyfredbot 3 minutes ago | parent
Not sure how long you'll be able to sell compute to anthropic for. They are constrained right now but they have an insane pipeline of take or pay contracts, and if those are delivered they'll be drowning in compute in a couple of years time.
124512310X 1 minute ago | parent
They wanted to raise 20 billion "from family offices and high net-worth individuals", i.e., fleece the Saudis again but failed:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/running-dry/
They got a bit of pocket change at this insane valuation.