Backed by SoftBank, Amazon, and NVIDIA, OpenAI plans to expand inference while serving 900 million weekly ChatGPT users.
OpenAI has raised $110 billion in new funding at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, marking one of the largest capital raises in the technology sector.The round includes $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from NVIDIA, and $50 billion from Amazon.
Additional investors may join as the round progresses.The company also signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon and secured next-generation inference capacity with NVIDIA.OpenAI says the funding will expand infrastructure, deepen global distribution, and strengthen its balance sheet as AI demand accelerates.Massive funding roundDemand for AI tools continues to surge across consumers, developers, and enterprises. OpenAI says meeting that demand requires three things: compute, distribution, and capital. This round aims to secure all three at scale.The growth shows in its products. Codex now serves 1.6 million weekly users, more than triple the number at the start of the year. Developers use the system to build and ship software that once required full engineering teams.We have raised a $110 billion round of funding from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank.We are grateful for the support from our partners, and have a lot of work to do to bring you the tools you deserve.— Sam Altman February 27, 2026More than 9 million paying business users rely on ChatGPT for work. Startups, enterprises, and governments use the OpenAI platform to redesign products and services.Many teams start with individual productivity tools, then deploy AI across engineering, support, finance, sales, and operations.ChatGPT remains the company’s flagship consumer product. It now reaches more than 900 million weekly active users and counts over 50 million subscribers.OpenAI says January and February are on track to become the largest months for new subscribers in its history.As usage increases, the company says performance improves. Users report faster responses, higher reliability, and more consistent outputs.Amazon and NVIDIA dealsOpenAI and Amazon announced a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate AI innovation for enterprises, startups, and consumers. The agreement strengthens distribution and enterprise reach.OpenAI also expanded its long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA. The company will use 3 gigawatts of dedicated inference capacity and 2 gigawatts of training capacity on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin systems.These systems build on Hopper and Blackwell platforms already deployed across Microsoft, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and CoreWeave.The added compute will support training and deploying frontier models at global scale.“We’re pushing the frontier across infrastructure, research, and products to make AI more capable, reliable, and broadly useful,” said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. He framed the partnerships as long-term collaborations aimed at scaling AI systems globally.“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 global scale.”OpenAI says the new valuation also increases the value of the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in OpenAI Group to more than $180 billion.That expansion strengthens one of the most well-resourced nonprofits in history and increases its capacity to fund philanthropy in areas such as health breakthroughs and AI resilience.The company now positions itself for a new phase. Frontier AI is moving from research labs into everyday use at global scale.OpenAI argues that leadership will depend on scaling infrastructure quickly and converting that capacity into products people depend on daily.
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