With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.