OpenAI Secures $110 Billion From Global Heavyweights, Aims to Reshape the Global AI Landscape
OpenAI has announced the completion of a landmark $110 billion investment round at a pre-money valuation of $730 billion, marking one of the largest fundraising deals in the history of the technology sector and underscoring accelerating global demand for artificial intelligence solutions across consumers, developers, and enterprises.
The funding round includes $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from NVIDIA, and $50 billion from Amazon. The deal also features a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon and expanded access to next-generation inference computing capacity powered by NVIDIA. Additional financial investors are expected to join as the round progresses toward final closing.
OpenAI said the new capital and partnerships will accelerate its global expansion, strengthen its technical infrastructure, and reinforce its financial position, enabling broader access to advanced AI technologies for individuals and institutions worldwide.
On the product front, the company highlighted rapid growth across its ecosystem. Its coding tool Codex now delivers advanced software engineering capabilities to users, reaching 1.6 million weekly active users - more than tripling since the start of the year, reflecting growing reliance on automation in software development.
In the enterprise segment, more than 9 million paid users rely on ChatGPT for daily work tasks. The platform has surpassed 900 million weekly active users globally, alongside more than 50 million consumer subscribers, with record-breaking subscription growth reported in January and February. Startups, large enterprises, and government entities are leveraging OpenAI’s platform to redesign and operate products and services powered by AI.
The company noted that artificial intelligence is entering a new phase - transitioning from research-driven experimentation to large-scale, everyday deployment. It stressed that leadership in this next chapter will depend on the ability to rapidly scale infrastructure while converting technical capabilities into trusted, user-reliant products.
As part of its strategic expansion, OpenAI announced a significant deepening of its long-term collaboration with NVIDIA, including the deployment of 3 gigawatts of inference computing capacity and 2 gigawatts dedicated to model training on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin systems. This builds on the company’s existing use of Hopper and Blackwell architectures operated through partners including Microsoft, Oracle, and CoreWeave, expanding its global ability to train and deploy advanced AI models at scale.
Sam Altman, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI, said the company is pushing the boundaries of innovation across infrastructure, research, and products to make artificial intelligence more capable, reliable, and beneficial. He emphasized that achieving AI systems that serve humanity requires deep collaboration across every layer of the technology ecosystem.
The new valuation also significantly increases the value of the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in OpenAI Group to more than $180 billion, strengthening its capacity to fund philanthropic initiatives in areas such as healthcare innovation and AI system resilience. The company said the move reflects its strategy of combining commercial expansion with long-term societal impact.