OpenAI完成1220亿美元融资

近日，OpenAI宣布完成1220亿美元私募融资，投后估值达8520亿美元，创下硅谷史上最大单轮融资纪录，引发全球科技与资本市场的广泛关注。

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1. If OpenAI maintains its stated monthly revenue rate of $2 billion, its projected annual revenue would exceed last year's revenue by approximately how much?

A. $10.9 billion

B. $24 billion

C. $13.1 billion

D. $2 billion

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OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO

From: CNBC

OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.

The round totaled $122 billion of committed capital, up from the $110 billion figure that the company announced in February. SoftBank co-led the round alongside other investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and D. E. Shaw Ventures, OpenAI said.

OpenAI kickstarted the artificial intelligence boom with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, and the company has since ballooned into one of the fastest-growing commercial entities on the planet. As of March, ChatGPT supports more than 900 million weekly active users, including more than 50 million subscribers.

“AI is driving productivity gains, accelerating scientific discovery, and expanding what people and organizations can build,” OpenAI said in a release. “This funding gives us the resources to continue to lead at the scale this moment demands.”

With the close of its latest funding round, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be under pressure to justify his company's massive valuation, especially as it gears up for a potential IPO. The startup has been retreating from some hefty spending plans and shuttering certain features and products in recent months, including its short-form video app Sora, as it looks to rein in costs.

OpenAI said Tuesday that it's generating $2 billion in revenue per month. It made $13.1 billion in revenue last year. The company is still burning cash and is not yet profitable.

In February, OpenAI revealed $110 billion of commitments from some of its strategic investors that anchored its funding round. Amazon agreed to invest up to $50 billion in the startup, Nvidia invested $30 billion, and SoftBank invested $30 billion.

The additional $12 billion of capital that OpenAI raised came from a broader pool of investors. OpenAI said it extended participation to investors through bank channels for the first time and raised $3 billion from individual investors.

Microsoft, one of OpenAI's longtime partners, also participated, but OpenAI did not disclose the size of the company's investment in its Tuesday release. As of late last year, Microsoft had invested more than $13 billion in the startup.

“Moments like this do not come often,” OpenAI said. “The capital being deployed today is helping build the infrastructure layer for intelligence itself. Over time, that value will flow back into the economy, to companies, to communities, and increasingly to individuals.”

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OpenAI closes record-breaking $122 billion funding round as anticipation builds for IPO

From: CNBC

OpenAI on Tuesday announced that it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.

OpenAI周二宣布完成一轮破纪录的融资，公司投后估值高达8520亿美元。

The round totaled $122 billion of committed capital, up from the $110 billion figure that the company announced in February. SoftBank co-led the round alongside other investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and D. E. Shaw Ventures, OpenAI said.

本轮融资承诺出资总额达1220亿美元，较该公司二月份公布的1100亿美元有所增加。OpenAI称，软银（SoftBank）与包括安德森·霍洛维茨（Andreessen Horowitz）和D. E. Shaw Ventures在内的其他投资者共同领投了此轮融资。

venture /ˈven.tʃər/ 1）作名词，表示“（尤指有风险的）企业，商业，投机活动，经营项目”，英文解释为“a business project or activity, especially one that involves taking risks”举个🌰：A disastrous business venture lost him thousands of dollars. 一个彻底失败的经营项目使他损失严重。

2）作动词，表示“敢于去；冒险去（或做）；冒昧地说”，英文解释为“to risk going somewhere or doing something that might be dangerous or unpleasant, or to risk saying something that might be criticized”举个🌰：As we set off into the forest, we felt as though we were venturing (forth) into the unknown. 当我们动身进入那片森林时，感觉自己似乎正在冒险进入一个未知的世界。

📺美剧《复仇》（Revenge）中的台词提到：This is brave new territory we're venturing into here. 这是我们华丽冒险的新地域。

📺美剧《宋飞正传》（Seinfeld）中的台词提到：You realize you're venturing into uncharted waters? 你意识到你在冒险进入未知水域吗？

OpenAI kickstarted the artificial intelligence boom with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, and the company has since ballooned into one of the fastest-growing commercial entities on the planet. As of March, ChatGPT supports more than 900 million weekly active users, including more than 50 million subscribers.

OpenAI在2022年推出ChatGPT聊天机器人，引爆了人工智能热潮。自此，该公司迅速成长为全球增长最快的商业实体之一。截至三月，ChatGPT的周活跃用户数已超过9亿，其中包括超过5000万订阅用户。

kick-start /ˈkɪk.stɑːt/ 1）表示“促使…开始”，英文解释为“to make something start to happen or start to develop more quickly”举个🌰：Taxes were drastically cut in an attempt to kick-start the economy. 进行了大幅减税以刺激经济增长。

2）表示“用脚踏启动（摩托车）”，英文解释为“to make the engine of a motorcycle start by forcefully pushing down a metal bar with your foot”

作动词，boom /buːm/ 1）表示“增长；迅速发展”，英文解释为“to increase or become successful and produce a lot of money very quickly”举个🌰：The leisure industry is booming. 休闲产业正在蓬勃发展。

2）表示“发出低沉有力的声音；发出隆隆声，轰鸣”，英文解释为“to make a very deep and loud hollow sound”举个🌰：The cannons boomed (out) in the night. 晚上传来隆隆炮声。

作名词，表示“增长，繁荣；增长期，繁荣期”，英文解释为“an increase in something , or a time when something becomes more popular”举个🌰：This year has seen a boom in book sales. 今年图书销售激增。

📍baby boom表示“生育高峰，婴儿潮”，英文解释为“a large increase in the number of babies born among a particular group of people during a particular time”举个🌰：There was a baby boom in the UK and the US after the Second World War. 二战后，英国和美国都出现了一次生育高峰。

balloon /bəˈluːn/ 作动词，熟词僻义，表示“（在大小、重量或重要性上）激增”，英文解释为“to quickly increase in size, weight, or importance”如：Medical costs are likely to balloon for families as life spans increase. 举个🌰：The rumours soon ballooned into a full-blown scandal. 这些传闻不久就完全演变成了一起丑闻。

entity /ˈen.tɪ.ti/ 表示“实体；独立存在体”，英文解释为“something that exists apart from other things, having its own independent existence”举个🌰：The museums work closely together, but are separate legal entities. 这些博物馆密切合作，但它们都是独立的法人实体。

表示“订购者，订阅人；用户；定期捐款者”，英文解释为“someone who subscribes to a product, service, or organization”举个🌰：Cable television companies have launched major campaigns to increase their number of subscribers. 有线电视公司已开展大型促销活动以增加用户数。

“AI is driving productivity gains, accelerating scientific discovery, and expanding what people and organizations can build,” OpenAI said in a release. “This funding gives us the resources to continue to lead at the scale this moment demands.”

OpenAI在一份声明中表示：“人工智能正在提升生产力、加速科学发现，并拓展人类与组织所能创造的边界。这笔资金为我们提供了资源，使我们能够继续以当下所需的规模保持领先地位。”

With the close of its latest funding round, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be under pressure to justify his company's massive valuation, especially as it gears up for a potential IPO. The startup has been retreating from some hefty spending plans and shuttering certain features and products in recent months, including its short-form video app Sora, as it looks to rein in costs.

随着最新一轮融资结束，OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼（Sam Altman）将面临证明公司天价估值合理性的压力，尤其是在公司为潜在的首次公开募股（IPO）做准备之时。为了控制成本，这家初创公司近几个月已开始缩减部分巨额支出计划，并关闭了包括其短视频应用Sora在内的某些功能与产品。

justify /ˈdʒʌs.tɪ.faɪ/ 表示“为…辩护；证明…正当（或有理、正确）；是…的正当理由”，英文解释为“to give or to be a good reason for”举个🌰：I can't really justify taking another day off work. 我真的找不出理由再多休一天假了。

📍词根“just-”表示“公正”，“-ify”表示“使成为”。近义词：defend（辩护），同根词：justice（正义），常用短语：justify oneself（为自己辩护）

gear up to/for sth 表示“（使）为…作好准备”，英文解释为“to prepare yourself/sb/sth to do sth”举个🌰： Cycle organizations are gearing up for National Bike Week. 自行车组织正在为全国自行车周活动作准备。

首次公开募股（Initial Public Offering, IPO）是指一家企业第一次将它的股份向公众出售。一旦首次公开上市完成后，这家公司就可以申请到证券交易所或报价系统挂牌交易。

hefty /ˈhef.ti/ 表示“（尤指金钱）大量的，巨额的”，英文解释为“a hefty amount of something, especially money, is very large”如：a hefty fine 巨额罚款。

📍也可以指“高大健壮的；笨重的”（big and heavy），如：a tall hefty man 一个高大健壮的男人；以及“用力的，重重的”（a hefty blow, kick etc is done using a lot of force），如：a hefty shove 一记猛推。

1）shutter作名词，通常复数，原意表示“活动护窗；百叶窗”，英文解释为“one of a pair of wooden or metal covers that can be closed over the outside of a window to keep out light or protect the windows from damage”，如：to open/close the shutters 打开/关上护窗。

2）作动词，可以指关上百叶窗，也有“（暂时或永久地）停业”的含义（to close down a business or activity）。

📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述疫情影响的文章中提到：As covid-19 shutters businesses and leaves supermarket shelves bare, ...随着新冠肺炎导致众多企业关闭，超市货架空空如也，

rein sth in = rein sth back 表示“抑制；控制；约束”，英文解释为“to control an emotion, activity, or situation to prevent it from becoming too powerful”举个🌰：We tried to rein in our excitement and curiosity. 我们尽力克制住兴奋和好奇。Reports today suggest consumers are already reining back spending. 今天发表的调查报告显示，消费者已经开始控制花销。

📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述美国对抗华为的文章中提到：It also explains why it is going to such lengths, even using European-style industrial policy, to rein in Huawei, China's leading maker of telecoms equipment. 这也解释了美国何以要竭尽全力遏制中国的通信设备制造巨头华为，甚至为此采取欧洲式的产业政策。

OpenAI said Tuesday that it's generating $2 billion in revenue per month. It made $13.1 billion in revenue last year. The company is still burning cash and is not yet profitable.

OpenAI周二表示，公司目前每月产生20亿美元的收入。去年其总收入为131亿美元。不过，公司目前仍在持续烧钱，尚未实现盈利。

In February, OpenAI revealed $110 billion of commitments from some of its strategic investors that anchored its funding round. Amazon agreed to invest up to $50 billion in the startup, Nvidia invested $30 billion, and SoftBank invested $30 billion.

今年二月，OpenAI披露了来自部分战略投资者的1100亿美元承诺，这些投资者构成了本轮融资的基石。其中，亚马逊（Amazon）同意向该初创公司投资高达500亿美元，英伟达（Nvidia）投资300亿美元，软银（SoftBank）也投资了300亿美元。

anchor /ˈæŋkə/ 作动词，1）表示“把…系住（或扎牢）；使稳固，使固定”，英文解释为“to make something or someone stay in one position by fastening him, her, or it firmly”举个🌰：We anchored ourselves to the rocks with a rope. 我们用绳子把自己固定在岩石上。

2）表示“使扎根；使基于”，英文解释为“to firmly base sth on sth else”举个🌰：Her novels are anchored in everyday experience. 她的小说取材自日常生活经验。

作名词，1）表示“锚”，英文解释为“a heavy metal object, usually shaped like a cross with curved arms, on a strong rope or chain, that is dropped from a boat into the water to prevent the boat from moving away”

2）美式，表示“（广播、电视节目的）主持人”

3）表示“可以依靠的人（或物）；精神支柱；靠山”，英文解释为“someone or something that gives support when needed”举个🌰：She was my anchor when things were difficult for me. 我身处困境时，她就是我的精神支柱。

The additional $12 billion of capital that OpenAI raised came from a broader pool of investors. OpenAI said it extended participation to investors through bank channels for the first time and raised $3 billion from individual investors.

OpenAI额外筹集的120亿美元资本来自更广泛的投资者群体。OpenAI称，这是公司首次通过银行渠道向投资者开放参与，并从个人投资者那里筹集了30亿美元。

Microsoft, one of OpenAI's longtime partners, also participated, but OpenAI did not disclose the size of the company's investment in its Tuesday release. As of late last year, Microsoft had invested more than $13 billion in the startup.

作为OpenAI的长期合作伙伴之一，微软（Microsoft）也参与了本轮融资，但OpenAI在周二的声明中未披露其具体投资额。截至去年年底，微软已向这家初创公司投资超过130亿美元。

disclose /dɪˈskləʊz/ 表示“公开，公布；透露，揭露”，英文解释为“to make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden”举个🌰：The company has disclosed profits of over £200 million. 这家公司已公布其利润超过两亿英镑。

📍词根“dis-”表示“分开”，“close”意味着“关闭”，整体表示“打开关闭的东西”，即“揭露”或“透露”信息。近义词：reveal（揭示），同根词：disclosure（披露），常用短语：disclose information（透露信息）

“Moments like this do not come often,” OpenAI said. “The capital being deployed today is helping build the infrastructure layer for intelligence itself. Over time, that value will flow back into the economy, to companies, to communities, and increasingly to individuals.”

OpenAI表示：“这样的时刻并不常见。今天投入的资本正在帮助构建智能本身的基础设施层。假以时日，其创造的价值将回馈经济、惠及企业、社区，并越来越多地惠及个人。”

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