Open AI raising $6.6 billion.

It's a close of one of the largest funding rounds ever for a private company, now valuing OpenAI at $157 billion.

Joining us now, it's a CNBC exclusive.

Open AI's chief operating officer, Brad, Lightcap, Brad, good to see you.

Good to see you.

And nice to learn that you're a Mets fan as well.

That I am.

I could spend the entire

interview on that, but I think the rest of our viewers might be a bit disappointed. You have a fairly

large remit as COO, but certainly partnerships are one of the key things I know you've focused on.

So I'd love to start with Apple. A lot of questions there, exactly what the relationship is in terms

of your help with Apple intelligence.

What can you tell us about what the partnership means for OpenAI and what Apple conceivably will get out of it?

Yeah. Well, hey, it's great to be here. Good to see you again. Apple's obviously an amazing company.

We're really thrilled to be part of Apple intelligence. We think it's a big step forward,

both for Apple. It's a first step, but it's a big step. It's the first time that we're going

to have AI really start to integrate into the device. You know, if you think about kind of how people

have used AI to date, it's mostly been accessing it through like apps and, you know, really, really simple

kind of services. But for the first time now, you can do really, really interesting things

on the device. So you can actually take a picture, for example, through the camera and

actually have Chat ChapteeBT understand what's going on in that image. And that's, you know,

that's, we think that's going to create tremendous value for consumers. And for the 250 million people that use chat GPT every week, we think it's just going to be another way for them to experience it.

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