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OpenAI has announced the completion of a USD 110 billion investment round, placing the company’s pre-money valuation at USD 730 billion. The funding, led by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank, marks the largest private capital raise in the history of the artificial intelligence sector.
The investment aims to address the rising global demand for AI by expanding physical infrastructure and compute capacity. According to OpenAI leadership, the company is moving from a research-focused phase into a period of daily, global-scale product use.
Strategic backing from industry leaders
The USD 110 billion total includes substantial commitments from three primary partners. Amazon led the round with a USD 50 billion commitment, which includes an initial USD 15 billion infusion followed by a secondary USD 35 billion tranche. NVIDIA and SoftBank each contributed USD 30 billion to the round.
These investments are tied to deep technical and commercial partnerships:
Amazon: OpenAI will use two gigawatts (GW) of compute capacity powered by Amazon’s Trainium AI chips. Additionally, Amazon Web Services (AWS) becomes the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for Frontier, OpenAI's platform for enterprise AI agents.
NVIDIA: The partnership secures five gigawatts of dedicated inference and training capacity built on the Vera Rubin architecture. This builds upon existing Hopper and Blackwell systems currently in operation across Microsoft, Oracle, and CoreWeave data centres.
SoftBank: CEO Masayoshi Son noted the investment aligns with SoftBank's strategy to advance its Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) goals while supporting OpenAI's balance sheet for long-term research.
User Growth and Commercial Metrics
OpenAI released updated usage data to support the valuation. ChatGPT now records more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million paying consumer subscribers. The company reported that January and February 2026 are on track to be the most active months for new subscriber additions in its history.
In the business sector, more than nine million paying enterprise users rely on ChatGPT for work. Usage of Codex, OpenAI's software development tool, has more than tripled since the start of the year, reaching 1.6 million weekly users.
Infrastructure and future projections
The capital will fund massive infrastructure requirements as OpenAI scales its Frontier models. Projections suggest the company may spend over USD 600 billion on AI compute by 2030. Part of this expansion includes the Stateful Runtime Environment, a system designed to allow AI agents to maintain context and remember prior interactions across complex workflows.
OpenAI’s philanthropic arm, the OpenAI Foundation, also saw the value of its stake rise to over USD 180 billion due to the new valuation. The foundation plans to use these resources to fund initiatives in health research and AI resilience. While Microsoft remains a central partner and the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI APIs, the company stated that these new agreements provide the diversification necessary for global distribution.