$900 billion valuation in sight & Google’s flash launch
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Just before Christmas, the situation in the financial markets and development labs is coming to a head. While Google is pushing ahead with the rollout of its latest Flash models, one of the largest financial transfers in history is nearing completion in Silicon Valley – a race against time that could reshape the balance of power in the AI world.
Here are the most important AI news stories of the day:
SoftBank: Race against the $22.5 billion deadline
Reports today confirm that SoftBank is working intensively to transfer the final tranche of its $22.5 billion investment in OpenAI before the end of the year. The payment is contractually contingent on OpenAI completing its internal restructuring to become a for-profit company by December 31, 2025.
Should this deadline pass, the investment could drop to $20 billion, according to insiders.
OpenAI is approaching a $900 billion valuation
Alongside the SoftBank deal, there are reports of new negotiations with other investors, including Amazon. These talks could catapult OpenAI’s valuation to an astronomical $900 billion.
This would propel the company into the ranks of the world’s most valuable tech giants, even before an official IPO.
Google: Gemini 3 Flash is live
Google has completed the global rollout of Gemini 3 Flash (which began on December 17th). Designed as a more efficient version of the Gemini 3 Pro released in November, the model is now fully available to developers.
Initial benchmarks show significant speed improvements over its predecessor, particularly for multimodal tasks (text, image, video).
DeepMind opens materials lab in Great Britain
Google DeepMind has officially launched its new UK research facility dedicated exclusively to the discovery of new materials. Building on the successes of its GNoME (Graph Networks for Materials Exploration) technology, the lab will use AI to dramatically accelerate the development of batteries, solar cells, and superconductors.
Claude Opus 4.5 establishes itself
One month after the release of Claude Opus 4.5 (November 25), current market analyses show that Anthropic is gaining market share in the enterprise sector.
Particularly in the area of coding, companies are currently considering the model the most stable alternative to the new OpenAI models (o3 series).
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