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OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in Largest Private Tech Funding Round

OpenAI secures $110 billion in funding led by Amazon's $50 billion, Nvidia's $30 billion, and SoftBank's $30 billion to expand AI infrastructure and cloud partnerships.

  • On Friday, OpenAI closed a $110 billion funding round that establishes a $730 billion pre-money valuation.
  • Citing compute needs, OpenAI is targeting roughly $600 billion in compute spend by 2030, saying fresh cash will secure advanced AI chips and data center infrastructure.
  • OpenAI will consume 2 gigawatts of AWS Trainium capacity, with $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, as of Friday.
  • Post-Money, the company is valued at $840 billion, and Amazon Web Services will be the exclusive third-party cloud provider for OpenAI Frontier, while Microsoft Azure’s terms remain unchanged.
  • As the industry reacts, the deal sets a new private-financing record but raises concerns about "circular" financing and intensifies competition from Anthropic and Google's Gemini.
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ChatGPT's developer hits hard with a record fundraiser of more than a hundred billion dollars. Amazon brings almost half of it. Nvidia and SoftBank are also involved in the operation, which values OpenAI at 730 billion dollars.

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OpenAI announced that it had received a new investment of $110 billion (€93 billion). The company also signed a "strategic partnership with Amazon".

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New milestone in the artificial intelligence industry. OpenAI announced this Friday a funding round of US$110 billion, more than double that obtained a year ago, which had set a record for a private technology company.The round constitutes the largest private financing ever.The operation raises its pre-money valuation (a company's valuation before receiving a new investment) to US$73 billion, compared to US$50 billion in secondary funding in Oct…

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Reuters broke the news in United Kingdom on Friday, February 27, 2026.
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