[smith7018]

"A few hundred million dollars" is not chump change to any organization; especially one that is in its growth phase. They raised $300M [1] in their last round so that would wipe out the all of the investment money they brought in.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/openai-funding-valuation-c...

[Der_Einzige]

It sure as shit was for Snowflake, who purchased streamlit for 800 million[1]. Streamlit is a python webUI front-end.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/02/snowflake-acquires-streaml...