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OpenAI Raises $11B More, Hits $1.25 Trillion Valuation
OpenAI closed an additional $11 billion funding round, pushing its valuation to $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its own IPO. The same day, payments company Ramp released transaction data showing enterprise AI spending growth has stalled.
Sources: TechCrunch · The Verge
- X algorithm factor 7
- The 'multiplied the rest by hope' line is a standalone tweet that nails the absurdity of venture valuations; it would get quote-tweeted by both AI boosters and skeptics. Weak visual execution undercuts the stop-scroll power a bit.
- Conceptual accuracy 7
- Correctly dramatizes the real gap between an $11B cash raise and a $1.25T headline valuation, which is the actual financial mechanism being reported. It skips the Anthropic/Ramp details but that's a deliberate narrowing of focus, not an error.
- Humor dry 7 · nerdy 7 · zinger 8 · pithy 7
- The joke is dry and nerdy in a satisfying way — it assumes the reader knows marginal pricing sets the whole cap table's 'value' — and the closing line is a genuine zinger, delivered with no fat on the script.
- Visual clarity 4
- Faces are cropped awkwardly at the hairline in panels 2 and 3, erasing the 'sly' and 'deadpan' expressions the script calls for, and panel 1's figures are crammed small at the bottom with a mostly empty board above them.