NEWS: OpenAI just announced that it has officially closed their latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion.
"We are now generating $2B in revenue per month. At this stage, we are growing revenue four times faster than the companies who defined the Internet and mobile eras, including Alphabet and Meta.
ChatGPT has more than 900 million weekly active users, and over 50 million subscribers. Search usage has nearly tripled in a year, and our ads pilot reached more than $100 million in ARR in under six weeks.
Momentum is just as strong on the enterprise side, which now makes up more than 40% of our revenue, and is on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026. GPT‑5.4 is driving record engagement across agentic workflows. Our APIs now process more than 15 billion tokens per minute. Codex now serves over 2 million weekly users, up 5x in the past three months, with usage growing more than 70% month over month."
My specialty is how threat drives polarization in human groups. Here is one of the most important ideas from psychological research from our time. How liberals and conservatives differ psychologically, and when they both abandon logic.
Here is the current triangle view, almost finished. I hesitated on this for a few years because it gets messy quick. But something has to be built to see how it goes in reality. It will be in the beta soon. Curious what you think
https://t.co/7h7QmjnjT9
Finally, a conceptual synthesis of Bowen's binding mechanisms, my "implicit model" emotional system concept, and Couzin's bio-quant research on cross-species decision making. (See comments)
I'm really getting the hang of exhaustive, high-quality, Ai-driven lit reviews on deep, deep topics. It is something else to watch an llm call hang because of the conceptual depth or logical complexity - and also not to have to pay for it because they charge by token not compute!