OpenAI announces a $110 billion funding round
OpenAI announced a $110 billion private funding round on 27 February 2026 at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, with $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Nvidia and $30 billion from SoftBank. It reported more than 900 million weekly ChatGPT users.
Why it mattered The announced partnerships linked OpenAI’s growth to infrastructure from its investors, including about 2 gigawatts of AWS Trainium compute and 3 gigawatts of Nvidia inference capacity.
Corrections
- 2026-09-26: Verified the OpenAI “Scaling AI for everyone” primary (live URL resolves; archived copy confirms the $110B raise and Amazon/Nvidia/SoftBank backing) alongside the two TechCrunch reports; entry published.