🤖 OpenAI’s Officially Worth $300 Billion?!

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• 💵OpenAI’s Officially Worth $300 Billion?!

• 🧠AI Decodes Brain Signals Into Spoken Words

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

OPENAI

💵OpenAI’s Officially Worth $300 Billion?!

OpenAI officially raised a $40 billion Series F, valuing the company at $300 billion. So, what’s the plan with all that money?

Key Details:

• OpenAI’s core focus remains on pursuing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which is achieved when AI Systems display human-level learning, perception, and cognitive ability.

• “We’re now confident we know how to build AGI,” explained OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “We’re beginning to turn our aim beyond that to Superintelligence.”

• $18 billion will go toward The Stargate Project, a new company that’ll spend $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in America.

• The money is contingent on OpenAI successfully restructuring into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) that’s no longer controlled by a Non-Profit Board of Directors (BofD).

• OpenAI was founded as a non-profit organization before it added a “capped profit” framework called OpenAI LP in 2019. In other words, OpenAI created a money-making company within the original non-profit organization. Investors are requiring OpenAI to restructure OpenAI LP because it puts a ceiling on how much money they can earn from OpenAI’s success.

Why It’s Important:

• This $300 billion valuation puts OpenAI as one of the world’s most richly valued private companies.

• Despite achieving $3.7 billion in revenue for 2024, OpenAI burned through $5 billion in the same year to acquire AI talent, build AI infrastructure, and train advanced AI models.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

🧠AI Decodes Brain Signals Into Spoken Words

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (“UC Berkeley”) developed “AI-Based Brain-to-Voice Neuroprosthesis (AIBVN),” which converts brain signals into spoken words in seconds.

Key Details:

• “AIBVN” decodes brain activity from the left frontal lobe of the Motor Cortex, which coordinates mouth, tongue, and throat movements to articulate words.

• Then, it amplifies, filters, and digitizes this brain activity to prepare it for a Text-to-Speech (TTS) Framework, which synthesizes everything into spoken words.

• To train the TTS Framework, patients look at phrases like: “Hey, how are you?” Then, they attempt to speak the phrases, which provides a mapping between the chunked windows of brain activity and the words they’re trying to articulate.

• “AIBVN” can also use a patient’s pre-injury voice, so when it decodes brain activity and the TTS Framework synthesizes everything into spoken words, it sounds like them.

• “We’re essentially intercepting brain signals where a thought is translated into articulation,” explained Co-Lead Researcher and Ph.D. Student Jun Cho. “So, we’re decoding everything after the thought, after we’ve decided what to say with what words to use.”

Why It’s Important:

• “AIBVN” represents a significant leap in restoring natural, personalized speech for patients who’ve lost the ability to communicate because of accidents or medical conditions.

• It also showcases how AI developments enable the creation of more advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) that connect a patient’s brain signals to external devices like speech speakers or robotic limbs.

🚨Watch “AIBVN” in action here.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Luma AI introduced “Camera Motion Concepts,” which allows for composable control over camera motion in video generation.

Chinese Tech Giant Baidu showcased ERNIE 4.5 destroying OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 in Chinese Chess, displaying superior logic, strategy, and precision.

China’s Zhipu AI launched “AutoGLM Rumination,” a free AI Agent that performs Deep Research and autonomously executes Multi-Step Workflows.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared that ChatGPT has gained over a million users in less than an hour after rolling out Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images to everyone.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• SplxAI raises a $7M Seed Round to help Enterprises secure Agentic AI Frameworks.

• Sympera AI secures a $10M Seed Round to scale Relationship Banking with Agentic AI.

• MemryX closes a $44M Series B for Advanced Edge AI Computing to power drones, vehicles, and robots.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• NVIDIA (Austin, TX): Compiler Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025

• Ceribell (Sunnyvale, CA): Sales Operations Analyst, Entry-Level

• Anthropic (San Francisco, CA): Content Marketing Lead, Mid-Level

• DomainTools (Austin, TX): Principal Platform Engineer, Senior-Level

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