Altman Meets with Mideast Investors as OpenAI Eyes $830 Valuation
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Elon Musk’s comments on AI costs and the future of robots at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Plus, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is lining up funding from Middle East investors that could total $50 billion and a whopping $830 billion valuation. And Blue Origin successfully launches its latest crewed mission, marking more than 90 passengers that the Jeff Bezos company has sent above the Karman line.
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| 0:22.3 | We want to go live to the stage in Davos now |
| 0:24.4 | where Elon Musk is speaking with BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink. |
| 0:28.3 | It's an important component of who we and what we are, |
| 0:31.8 | and I'm thrilled to have Elon Musk here. |
| 0:36.7 | He came all the way from California to be here to see all of you. |
| 0:40.4 | So thank you, Elon. |
| 0:42.1 | You guys welcome. |
| 0:46.7 | I mean, I heard about the formation of the Peace Summit, |
| 0:51.5 | and I was like, is that P-I-E-C? |
| 0:58.8 | You know, a little piece of Greenland, a little piece of Venezuela. |
| 1:04.4 | We got one. |
| 1:05.8 | All we want is peace. |
| 1:07.6 | Okay, I'm going to, as I said, I'm a pretty proud CEO a CEO of BlackRock since we went public. |
| 1:14.1 | The compounding return of Black Rock to our shareholders |
| 1:16.8 | with 21%. Since Elon took Tesla |
| 1:20.9 | public, his compounded return |
| 1:24.5 | is 43%. |
| 1:30.3 | This is just another advertisement for everybody, |
| 1:32.3 | especially for Europeans. |
| 1:34.3 | This is why more citizens should be investing with growth, |
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