News from the AI market. DeepSeek and Musk on the offensive.

A review of developments in the artificial intelligence market: OpenAI vs. Anthrophic. DeepSeek chases US. How Elon Musk wanted to buy OpenAI

Here's the latest news on valuations of artificial intelligence-related companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic:​

OpenAI:

  • October 2024: OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion from investors, raising the company's valuation to $157 billion. Investors included Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Nvidia and SoftBank, among others. ​

  • February 2025: A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion takeover bid for OpenAI. The offer was rejected by OpenAI's board of directors.

Anthropic:

  • March 2025: Anthropic raised $3.5 billion in a Series E funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, raising the company's valuation to $61.5 billion.

  • November 2024: Amazon has invested an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion. This investment was aimed at strengthening Amazon's position in the race for dominance in artificial intelligence technology.

It is worth noting that despite high valuations, both OpenAI and Anthropic are incurring significant financial losses, mainly due to the high costs associated with developing and maintaining advanced AI models. For example, OpenAI projects an operating loss of $5 billion in 2024, despite projected revenues of $3.7 billion. ​​

DeepSeek is a Chinese company specializing in artificial intelligence, founded in 2023 by Liang Wenfeng.The company has developed a number of advanced language models, the latest of which is the DeepSeek-V3, introduced in December 2024. The model contains 671 billion parameters, of which 37 billion are activated for each token. Using Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) mechanism, DeepSeek-V3 achieves high performance with efficient use of computing resources.The model was trained on a dataset containing 14.8 trillion tokens, allowing it to outperform other open-source models and match leading closed-source models.

In January 2025, DeepSeek introduced the following. R1 model, which is also based on the MoE architecture with 671 billion parameters, 37 billion of which are activated for each token. The R1 model was designed with an emphasis on reasoning and problem-solving abilities, making it competitive with other advanced AI models. ​

Both models, DeepSeek-V3 and R1, are available as open source software, which allows them to be widely used in various fields.

In February 2025, a significant event occurred in the technology industry: Elon Musk, along with a consortium of investors, made an offer to acquire OpenAI for $97.4 billion. However, the offer was rejected by OpenAI's board of directors, which caused widespread echoes in the technology and business world.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a non-profit organization aimed at developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. In 2018, Musk left the company over differences in development vision. Since then, OpenAI has evolved into a for-profit entity, attracting investment from giants such as Microsoft. Musk, critical of the change, founded his own AI company, xAI, and has repeatedly expressed concerns about the direction OpenAI is taking.​​

Musk's offer highlights Growing tensions in the artificial intelligence sector. Its attempt to acquire OpenAI can be seen as a desire to regain influence over the direction of AI development. Altman's rejection of the offer indicates OpenAI's determination to maintain its independence and continue its chosen business strategy.​

Here is a list of the 10 largest language models (LLMs) today in terms of number of users and capabilities, along with information about their creators:

  1. GPT-4o
    Developed by OpenAI, GPT-4o is an "omni" version of GPT-4, unveiled in mid-2024. The model supports multiple modalities, such as text, audio, image and even video, offering advanced capabilities for understanding and generating content in different formats.

  2. Claude 3.7 Sonnet
    Developed by Anthropic, Claude 3.7 Sonet stands out for its ability to reason clearly and generate human-like content, making it one of the leading language models.

  3. Gemini 2.0 Flash
    Developed by Google DeepMind, Gemini 2.0 Flash is a multimodal model that integrates advanced language processing capabilities with other modalities, offering versatile applications in a variety of fields.

  4. Grok 3
    Developed by xAI, Grok 3 is an advanced language model that combines reasoning capabilities with access to platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) for more dynamic and timely content generation.

  5. LLaMA 3.1
    Developed by Meta AI, LLaMA 3.1 is an open-source language model that offers improved reasoning and coding capabilities, outperforming earlier versions and competing models in many tasks.

  6. Falcon 180B
    Developed by the Technology Innovation Institute, Falcon 180B is one of the largest and most powerful open-source language models, designed for tasks such as translation, text generation and research.

  7. Qwen-1.5
    Developed by Alibaba Cloud, Qwen-1.5 is an open-source language model that competes with other leading models in terms of capability and cost-effectiveness, designed for high-performance language processing tasks.

  8. Gemini Ultra
    Developed by Google DeepMind, Gemini Ultra is the first artificial intelligence model to achieve human-level performance on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) test, which measures the model's ability to perform various language tasks simultaneously.

  9. PaLM 2
    Developed by Google, PaLM 2 (Pathways Language Model 2) is an advanced language model that has been used in chatbots such as Bard, offering advanced natural language processing capabilities.

  10. Mistral 7B
    Developed by Mistral AI, Mistral 7B is a language model that outperforms GPT-3.5 and Llama 2 70B in many benchmarks, offering advanced language processing capabilities with fewer parameters.

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