OpenAI Finalizes $6.6B Share Sale, Hits $500B Valuation
OpenAI has completed a secondary share sale worth $6.6 billion, letting current and former employees sell stock at a new $500 billion valuation — a milestone in the company’s funding strategy.
Every interaction with a language model must fit inside a limited working space called the context window. It contains the tokens the model can consider at one time, including instructions, conversation history, retrieved documents, and the response being generated. When the total exceeds the model’s limit, older or less important material must be removed, summarized, or processed separately. A larger context window can support long reports, extended conversations, and analysis across many files, but capacity alone does not guarantee that the model will use every detail correctly. Information placement, prompt structure, retrieval quality, and computational cost still matter. Context windows differ from permanent memory because their contents apply to the current request unless another system explicitly stores them.
OpenAI has completed a secondary share sale worth $6.6 billion, letting current and former employees sell stock at a new $500 billion valuation — a milestone in the company’s funding strategy.
OpenAI has introduced Sora 2, a next-generation video AI model with synchronized audio, improved physics, and tighter control, alongside a companion social app.
Opera today introduced Neon, an AI-powered browser that can run tasks and navigate pages autonomously — aiming to shift web browsing from passive to “agentic.”
OpenAI’s next version of its Sora video generator will default to including copyrighted content unless owners explicitly opt out – drawing criticism from media creators.
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive feature delivering daily updates and suggestions directly in the app, positioning it as a potential challenger to social media feeds.
AI search startup Perplexity has reportedly raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation, just two months after a $100 million round – signaling its rapid rise as a major rival to Google.