OpenAI has announced a $110 billion funding, with new investments setting a $730 billion pre-money valuation.
The new funding round sees $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from NVIDIA and $50 billion from Amazon, with the remainder to be made up by other backers.
The ChatGPT creator said, in an announcement, that demand for artificial intelligence across consumers, developers and businesses is surging, and that meeting that demand requires compute, distribution and capital.
OpenAI highlighted product and usage growth tied to the scale push. Weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6 million. More than 9 million paying business users rely on ChatGPT for work, while ChatGPT has more than 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million consumer subscribers; the company said January and February were on track to be the largest months for new subscribers in its history.
The Frontier platform helps enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI coworkers, it added.
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The company described two strategic deals alongside the financing. OpenAI signed a multi-year partnership with Amazon to accelerate enterprise and consumer AI. It also expanded work with NVIDIA, securing next-generation inference compute including 3GW of dedicated inference capacity and 2 GW of training on Vera Rubin systems, and said this builds on Hopper and Blackwell systems already in operation across Microsoft, OCI, and CoreWeave.
Meanwhile, the new funding round increases the value of the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in OpenAI Group to over $180 billion, which it says expands its capacity for philanthropy.
The recap
OpenAI announces $110 billion new investment at $730 billion valuation.
Funding includes $30 billion SoftBank, $30 billion NVIDIA, $50 billion Amazon.
Additional financial investors are expected to join the round.