Valuation of $730 billion! OpenAI completes $110 billion funding, Nvidia invested $30 billion

OpenAI secures over $100 billion in massive funding round.

On February 27th, local time, OpenAI announced the completion of a new funding round worth $110 billion, with a pre-money valuation of up to $730 billion. The round includes $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from NVIDIA, and $50 billion from Amazon.

OpenAI stated that the company has also signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured the supply of NVIDIA’s next-generation inference computing power. As this funding round progresses, other financial investors are expected to join. “These partnerships expand our global reach, deepen infrastructure development, and strengthen our balance sheet, enabling us to bring cutting-edge AI to more people, businesses, and communities worldwide.”

Since the beginning of this year, Codex’s weekly active users have more than doubled to 1.6 million, while ChatGPT’s weekly active users exceed 900 million, with over 50 million individual subscribers and more than 9 million paid enterprise users.

OpenAI said that the growth momentum of subscription users has significantly accelerated at the start of this year, and January and February are expected to be the months with the highest new subscription additions in the company’s history.

OpenAI stated, “We are entering a new phase where frontier AI is moving from laboratory research to everyday applications worldwide. Future leadership will depend on who can rapidly expand infrastructure to meet demand and turn that capability into products people rely on.” The current funding round and these partnerships enable the company to balance these goals and accelerate the mission to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.

Additionally, OpenAI mentioned that after this funding round, the valuation of the non-profit organization’s holdings within the group exceeds $180 billion, further solidifying its position and expanding its charitable capabilities.

Previously, to expand computing power, OpenAI signed agreements worth over $1 trillion with Oracle, NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Amazon, and others, raising concerns about whether it could afford such massive expenses.

Recently, OpenAI lowered its target amount, informing investors that it plans to invest approximately $600 billion in computing infrastructure by 2030.

According to earlier reports, OpenAI’s total revenue in 2025 is expected to reach $13 billion, while Microsoft hinted in its financial report that OpenAI lost over $12 billion in just the third quarter. However, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded that the company’s annual revenue is far more than $13 billion.

Altman predicts that OpenAI’s annualized revenue will exceed $20 billion in 2025 and grow to hundreds of billions by 2030.

He stated, “Investing heavily in infrastructure is a strategic gamble at the corporate level.” OpenAI and its partners are betting on exponential growth in AI usage, but the company has a detailed plan, clear development directions for technology and capabilities, and products and revenue streams built on that foundation. “Without computing power, we cannot generate revenue or continue to develop models at this scale.”

Altman noted that large infrastructure projects take time to build, which is why OpenAI needs to start investing now.

He also revealed that OpenAI may go public in 2027. Previous reports suggest that the IPO could be valued at around $1 trillion, with a potential filing with regulators as early as late 2026.

(Source: The Paper)