OpenAI seeking to raise up to $100B at valuation as high as $830B: WSJ

December 19, 2025 • 2m 13s
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 00:02.150
and three two welcome back to squawk box open AI is reportedly looking to raise as much as a hundred billion dollars for its expansion plans which could value the company as high as you ready for this eight hundred and thirty billion dollars so we're getting close to the
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 00:17.240
trillion dollar mark the wall street journal saying that the earliest fundraising ground would be completed at the end of the first quarter of this coming year and then open i expect to draw in financing from sovereign wealth funds as well earlier in the week the information
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 00:29.400
reported that open AI has held early early talks with investors about raising funds at a seven hundred fifty dollars seven hundred fifty dollars seven hundred fifty billion dollar valuations so those numbers keep going up who did this are you responsible for this i did
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not do i have to i
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 00:48.280
have to read this myself actually let me
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read this is like a very OK let let me read this you
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 00:53.400
can read it because i i can't i didn't know that that that some producer was going to do this to us all
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right well this is something worth celebrating we had the champagne already this morning when we were looking at wines to be checking out over the holidays we should have saved it for this moment former president barack obama out with his list of favorite books from twenty
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twenty five and guess who's on the list they include michael lewis 's book who is government his wife michelle obama 's book the look and andrew ross sorkin 's nineteen twenty nine so there you have it folks barack obama himself recommending andrew 's book and i think it worked
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right yeah
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 01:33.720
i i was so surprised i mean i i by the way i look at his list every year but i think his list is influential and it
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actually is you can
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 01:40.080
you can look at amazon sales and you can see things moving around absolutely so mister president former president the united states thank you
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and congratulations andrew we should have saved the champagne for
Andrew Ross Sorkin (Co-anchor of Squawk Box) 01:50.950
this well i didn't know that they would mention on on TV so there you go thank you
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all right by the way folks you still have time to order if you haven't yet if you have last minute christmas presents you're looking for there's still time to get this one in and maybe if you're lucky we can even get andrew to sign you sign it for you order those books and order
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them right now on amazon