OpenAI Secures $6.6bn Funding, Asks Investors to Avoid Rivals

- OpenAI has secured $6.6bn in new funding and is now valued at $150bn, the highest in Silicon Valley's history. - The company has asked investors to avoid backing rival start-ups such as Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI. - OpenAI's move to seek exclusive relationships with investors could limit rivals' access to capital and strategic partnerships. - The company's latest funding round was led by Thrive, a venture capital firm founded by Joshua Kushner. - OpenAI plans to use the new funding to double down on its leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that help people solve hard problems. Source: [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/66e0653e-c446-47b2-8a7f-baa54ccbfb9a)