I suppose this round is mainly present to retain those employees who want to buy houses from their shares, as in big tech they would be getting, after vesting, highly liquid RSUs. The fact that the company leadership makes an entire round just for them shows what immense bargaining power they have.
OpenAI is aiming far higher than 800 billion, and with no public offering, there’s no other way to be part of it.
At least it is a better situation than Stripe, which got very greedy at that $95B inflated valuation until it lost 50% of that with a massive downround.
$80B - $95B for OpenAI seems already extremely overvalued and not taking into account for competition at all.
$800B is just borderline nonsense at this point.