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OpenAI courts private equity to join enterprise AI venture
OpenAI is reportedly in advanced talks with TPG, Advent, Bain Capital, and Brookfield to form a joint venture valued at about $10 billion that would distribute its enterprise AI tools across the firms' portfolio companies. The PE firms would invest roughly $4 billion and receive equity, board seats, and early access to OpenAI products. Anthropic is pursuing a similar strategy with private equity firms, highlighting a growing push by AI labs to use buyout firms as distribution channels into large enterprises.
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