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February 27, 2026
OpenAI Raises $110B in One of the Largest Private Funding Rounds in History
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.
TL;DR
- OpenAI has raised $110 billion in private funding.
- Amazon invested $50 billion, Nvidia $30 billion, and SoftBank $30 billion.
- The company has a $730 billion pre-money valuation.
- The funding round is one of the largest in history and remains open.
- OpenAI is partnering with Amazon and Nvidia for infrastructure.
- A portion of the funding may be in services rather than cash.
- OpenAI plans to develop a new 'stateful runtime environment' on Amazon's Bedrock platform.
- OpenAI will expand its AWS partnership by $100 billion and commit to consuming at least 2GW of AWS Tranium compute.
- OpenAI plans to build custom models for Amazon consumer products.
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy highlighted the new collaboration's potential for AI apps and agents.
- Part of Amazon's investment may be contingent on achieving AGI or an IPO by year-end.
- OpenAI has committed to using 3GW of dedicated inference capacity and 2GW of training on Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems.
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