{"id":495996,"date":"2025-10-02T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=760338"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:30:39","slug":"openai-hits-500b-valuation-after-employee-share-sale-as-ai-mania-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/openai-hits-500b-valuation-after-employee-share-sale-as-ai-mania-accelerates\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Hits $500B Valuation After Employee Share Sale as AI Mania Accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/openai-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>OpenAI hit a cool $500 billion valuation after a secondary stock sale, putting the San Francisco AI lab in rarefied company and on every investor\u2019s speed dial. Half-Trillion Milestone: OpenAI\u2019s Secondary Sale Crowns a New AI King The tender lets current and former employees cash out roughly $6.6 billion without issuing new shares, a classic [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI hit a cool $500 billion valuation after a secondary stock sale, putting the San Francisco AI lab in rarefied company and on every investor\u2019s speed dial. Half-Trillion Milestone: OpenAI\u2019s Secondary Sale Crowns a New AI King The tender lets current and former employees cash out roughly $6.6 billion without issuing new shares, a classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-495996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}