OpenAI has announced a new investment round totaling $110 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, aimed at expanding computing capacity, distribution channels, and financial resources as demand for artificial intelligence tools accelerates. The round includes $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from NVIDIA, and $50 billion from Amazon, with additional investors expected to participate.
Alongside the funding, OpenAI signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon and expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to secure next-generation inference infrastructure. The arrangement includes 3 gigawatts of dedicated inference capacity and 2 gigawatts of training capacity using NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin systems, complementing existing deployments running on Hopper and Blackwell architectures across partners such as Microsoft, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and CoreWeave.
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According to CEO Sam Altman, “We’re pushing the frontier across infrastructure, research, and products to make AI more capable, reliable, and broadly useful.” He added that “SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon are long-term partners who share our ambition to turn real scientific progress into systems that deliver meaningful benefits for people at a global scale.” The investment also increases the value of the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in the company to more than $180 billion, strengthening its ability to fund philanthropic initiatives.