OpenAI’s journey is wild: The company was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit with 1 billion in funding. In 2019, Microsoft invested 1 billion in OpenAI under a multi-year partnership to build AI supercomputing technologies. By the ChatGPT launch in November 2022, the company was already worth ~20 billion. Between November 2022 and March 2025, its valuation has surged +1,400%, to ~300 billion. Today, the company’s valuation is estimated at 500 billion, TRIPLING over the last 12 months. The AI revolution is moving faster than ever.(The Kobeissi Letter)