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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by sekai on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:17AM (#45733210)
> This also confirms the $500 billion valuation making OpenAI the most valuable private startup in the world.

SpaceX?

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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by throwup238 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:59AM (#45734593)
If SpaceX is still a “startup”, the word has lost all meaning.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by tguedes on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:47PM (#45737065)
It already has. Any tech company that is pre-IPO and still raising funding rounds is a "startup". I'm surprised there hasn't been someone to come up with a separate term for the stage of these kinds of companies.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by airspresso on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:21PM (#45740030)
That's just a privately owned tech company then. Lots of companies never IPO.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by tguedes on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:10AM (#45747071)
Still, I think there needs to be a specific term for a company that has recently had a funding round and will likely IPO in the future, like Stripe. That's a different category than a start-up or privately owned company that will never IPO like Koch Inc.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by whamlastxmas on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:01AM (#45733757)
Around $350 to $400 billion from a couple sources I saw, but it's a lot of speculation
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