OpenAl's $500B Valuation

Bubble or Blueprint for AI Supremacy?

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Launched as an Artificial intelligence (AI) startup, OpenAI has overtaken SpaceX to become the world's most valuable company, touching a $500 billion valuation in a secondary share sale, according to a Bloomberg report. In just a few years, it has grown from a research hub to a tech giant, challenging the key players in Silicon Valley.

While investors hailed it as a new era of intelligence, the critics, however, saw something similar to the dotcom bubble, this time powered by GPUs and hype. So which is it? A bubble waiting to burst, or the most strategic play in AI's history?

The Meteoric Rise

Revolution always begins with a demo. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in late 2022, and it immediately went viral. The platform gathered 100 million users in no time, faster than any other digital product. Since then, OpenAI has become an engine for the AI economy. Its GPT models powered copilots, search tools, creative suites, and even operating systems. From Microsoft to JP Morgan, Disney to Apple, tech titans have signed multimillion-dollar API deals to build their own AI-driven workflows.