Daily · Oct 21, 2026
OpenAI in talks to raise about $30B at a valuation above $1.4 trillion
OpenAI is negotiating a funding round of roughly $30 billion at a proposed valuation above $1.4 trillion, ahead of Anthropic's listing. That is at least 64% higher than the $852 billion valuation in March. On the same day, Meta's open-weight model Muse Spark Open launched on Fireworks the day it was released, aimed at long-context coding and agent tasks.
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