According to a ranking compiled last month of the highest-valued unicorns in 2025 by Eqvista, OpenAI now easily ranks No. 1, surpassing TikTok parent ByteDance (BDNCE). The top 10 list is ...

After the round, OpenAI is tied with TikTok parent ByteDance as the second-most valuable privately-held company, trailing only Musk-led SpaceX. OpenAI said the money “enables us to push the ...

The valuation puts OpenAI behind only SpaceX at $350 billion and even with TikTok parent ByteDance among the world's most richly valued private companies, according to CB Insights. Japan's ...

values OpenAI at $300 billion, making it one of the most valuable private companies in the world, along with the rocket company SpaceX and ByteDance, the maker of TikTok. OpenAI started the ...

solidifies OpenAI as one of the world’s most valuable private companies, trailing only SpaceX and rivaling TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. The scale of this funding round is unprecedented.

The investment was the highest ever raised for a startup and places OpenAI at a $300-billion valuation, tied with TikTok parent company ByteDance and behind the $350-billion valuation for Elon ...

Goku AI is ByteDance’s answer to OpenAI’s Sora—and it may have just set a new industry standard. Its advanced training architecture, parallelism, and scalable data pipelines make it a serious ...

With the latest funding, OpenAI will join the ranks of the most valuable private companies, such as SpaceX, China’s ByteDance and Stripe.

ByteDance, the Chinese web media giant parent ... R1 and approaching Google’s newly released Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI’s o3-mini-high reasoner on many third-party benchmark evaluations.

OpenAI, which is losing billions of dollars ... One potential winner not fully appreciated is TikTok owner ByteDance, said Lee. "I listed ByteDance because we know how much they're spending ...