PANews reported on September 30 that according to The Information, SoftBank Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI's latest round of financing. Before this investment, OpenAI's valuation was $150 billion. This is SoftBank's first investment in a company led by Sam Altman. The main investor Thrive Capital invested more than $1 billion this time, and other participants include Tiger Global, Coatue Management, and Microsoft.