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OpenAI Cap Table Leak Reveals Microsoft's 18x Return, SoftBank's $50B Gain, And A CEO Who Owns Nothing

The leaked OpenAI cap table reveals the massive returns early investors achieved and highlights the unusual equity structure where the founding CEO has no ownership stake, providing rare insight into AI's biggest financial success story.

Why it ranks · · Microsoft achieved 18x return on OpenAI investment · 2026-04-02

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The six pillarsRanked by KeyRank · 2026-04-02

Frontier

27% share

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 28 stories

  1. 1Anthropic ‘Mythos’ Model Signals New Era of AI Cybersecurity Risks85
  2. 2Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4 - theregister.com
  3. 3Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images - theregister.com
All 28 stories

Tools

32% share

The AI products people actually use. · 33 stories

  1. 1Defeating the ‘Token Tax’: How Google Gemma 4, NVIDIA, and OpenClaw are Revolutionizing Local Agentic AI: From RTX Desktops to DGX Spark85
  2. 2Rocket Close transforms mortgage document processing with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Textract
  3. 3HubSpot flips AI pricing on its head with outcome-based Breeze agents
All 33 stories

Agents

quiet today

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

  1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Money

23% share

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 23 stories

  1. 1OpenAI Cap Table Leak Reveals Microsoft's 18x Return, SoftBank's $50B Gain, And A CEO Who Owns Nothing95
  2. 2Sector Snapshot: Venture Funding To Foundational AI Startups In Q1 Was Double All Of 2025
  3. 3Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion
All 23 stories

Chips

6% share

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 6 stories

  1. 1Blackstone Extends the Data Center Buying Spree85
  2. 2Chinese chipmakers now control 41 percent of China's AI accelerator market
  3. 3Neocloud Pioneer CoreWeave All In on Inference
All 6 stories

Work

12% share

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 12 stories

  1. 1AI's $14 Billion Problem Has Nothing To Do With Models95
  2. 2Salesforce Agentforce Executive Departs for Rival Sierra
  3. 3KernelEvolve: How Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent Optimizes AI Infrastructure
All 12 stories
Enterprise & data stackSalesforce, Databricks, Snowflake & more · 2026-04-02
  1. 1
    Salesforce Agentforce Executive Departs for Rival SierraSalesforce
    85
  2. 2
    HubSpot flips AI pricing on its head with outcome-based Breeze agentsHubSpot
    85
  3. 3
    NHS staff boycott Palantir’s data platform over ethical concernsPalantir
    75
  4. 4
    Ask (a New Manager’s) Slackbot
    68
  5. 5
    Helidon 4.4.0 Introduces Alignment with OpenJDK Cadence and Support via Java Verified PortfolioOracle
    65

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