OpenAI Secures $110 Billion in New Funding to Fuel Global AI Scaling
OpenAI announced a major $110 billion investment round today, February 27, 2026, valuing the company at $730 billion pre-money. The funding, which includes significant contributions from global technology leaders, is designed to expand the company’s infrastructure and reach as demand for artificial intelligence continues to surge across consumer and enterprise markets.
Strategic Partnerships and Infrastructure
The investment round is led by several key partners who are also deeply integrated into OpenAI's operational strategy:
Amazon: Contributed $50 billion and signed a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate AI innovation for startups and enterprises.
NVIDIA: Provided $30 billion in investment. As part of the deal, OpenAI secured dedicated next generation inference compute, including 3 GW of dedicated inference capacity and 2 GW of training on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin systems.
SoftBank: Contributed $30 billion to the round.
These agreements build upon existing operations with Microsoft, Oracle Cloud (OCI), and CoreWeave, which already utilize NVIDIA’s Hopper and Blackwell systems. Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, noted that building AI that works for everyone requires "deep collaboration across the stack".
Rapid Product Growth and Adoption
According to OpenAI's announcement, the funding comes amid significant user growth across OpenAI’s product suite:
ChatGPT: ChatGPT now reaches more than 900 million weekly active users and has surpassed 50 million consumer subscribers. January and February 2026 are on track to be the largest months for new subscribers in the company's history.
Business Usage: More than 9 million paying business users now rely on ChatGPT for professional tasks.
Codex: Weekly users for the company’s engineering tool have more than tripled since the start of the year, reaching 1.6 million.
Impact on the OpenAI Foundation
The new valuation has increased the value of the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in the OpenAI Group to over $180 billion. This makes the foundation one of the most well-resourced nonprofits in history, with plans to fund philanthropy in critical areas such as health breakthroughs and AI resilience.
As the investment round progresses, additional financial investors are expected to join the capital raise.
