Current and former staff of Microsoft-backed (MSFT) OpenAI intend to sell roughly $6B worth of stock to an investor group comprised of Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment, and SoftBank (SFTBY), in a deal that values OpenAI at $500B, Bloomberg’s Kate Clark reports, citing people familiar with the matter. The discussions are early an the size of the sale could potentially change, the author notes.
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