OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each

OpenAI has closed a $110 billion funding round, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago, which was a record for a private tech company.

CNBC 2026-02-27

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@ajassy Andy Jassy on x
Excited about our new strategic partnership with @OpenAI. Developers and companies of all kinds are eager to run services powered by OpenAI models on AWS, and our unique collaboration will provide a stateful runtime environment for them that's powered by OpenAI's frontier [image]
@sama Sam Altman on x
We have raised a $110 billion round of funding from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank. We are grateful for the support from our partners, and have a lot of work to do to bring you the tools you deserve.
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
OpenAI also expands, interestingly calling out 3 GW for inference and 2 GW for training, with @nvidia [image]
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
I imagine there are also favorable economics on the inference side of things that help OpenAI's margins and Amazon's as well which is good for ROIC.
@sama Sam Altman on x
NVIDIA has long been one of our most important partners, and their chips are the foundation of AI computing. We are grateful for their continued trust in us, and excited to run their systems in AWS. Their upcoming generations should be great.
@sama Sam Altman on x
SoftBank is an incredible and high-conviction partner. We are excited to welcome them again as a major investor, and to do much more across their ecosystem.
@mattmday Matt Day on x
Amazon, a company that historically sat out Big Tech-sized investment deals, is putting $50,000,000,000 into OpenAI: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
Not too long ago, the AI battlelines were: OpenAI/Microsoft Anthropic/Amazon Not anymore https://openai.com/...
@edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky
OpenAI announcing “$110 billion” in new funding, leaving out that $35 billion of Amazon's $50 billion is contingent on an IPO, and the $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA is paid in installments. Anyone reporting this as fully closed is wrong. It'll happen anyway. — ope…
@peark.es George Pearkes on bluesky
OpenAI round from strategic partners. — $110bn raised, $730bn valuation. $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon. — More investors to come in second stage as previously reported. — ChatGPT has 900mm weekly active users and 50mm consumer subscribers.
r/OpenAI r on reddit
OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank. Valuing company at $730 billion.
@agupta Ankit Gupta on x
This should be a public company not private. More people should have access to valuation growth in tech companies, and we're going to see increasing populist backlash if only a select group of (already very wealthy) people get rich when America produces companies like this. Bad
@jason @jason on x
Wow.... @Sama just raised double than every startup did in 2015 — in one round of funding.
@theoneandomsy Omar on x
Amazon's a 2.2 trillion dollar company that made 78 billion dollars in '25. This OpenAI raise of $110b is 1.4x all the money Amazon made last year. Nutty times!
@jeremygiffon Jeremy Giffon on x
It's a great condemnation of American markets that only Masa could get fees on this historical achievement
@theprimeagen @theprimeagen on x
they reduced their spend target from (at least what the internet estimates) 1.4T to 600B by 2030 they estimate a healthy amount of income from ads i no longer think they will implode
@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
It's not actual cash raised, this deal adds to the thicket of circular financing from the biggest companies in the worlds. A whiff of Ponzi.
@pitdesi Sheel Mohnot on x
$110B in new funding at a $730B pre. $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, $50B from Amazon. The largest IPO in history was Aramco at $29B Not that long ago a $100B fund (SoftBank) seemed insane. Now we have single rounds of funding that are larger!
@packym Packy McCormick on x
$10M raise: hire Michael Bay to direct fundraise announcement video $110B raise:
@mert @mert on x
> be infra company (amazon/nvda/oracle) > sign huge gpu deal w frontier AI lab > infra company stock goes up on the news > said AI lab raises round from the same infra company because infra company now has more paper > AI lab now has the money to pay the above GPU deal > infra
@crypt0lake @crypt0lake on x
110 billion that's 2 times the gdp of tunisia man
@iamjasonlevin Jason Levin on x
OpenAI announcing $110b funding round the day after Anthropic is being considered a supply chain risk by the US government may be enough to bring back the mandate of heaven it once had.
@sama Sam Altman on x
We continue to have a great relationship with Microsoft. Our stateless API will remain exclusive to Azure, and we will build out much more capacity with them.
@sama Sam Altman on x
We are excited to partner with Amazon to bring a new generation of products to market, especially around new enterprise products like the stateful runtime environment. We are also very excited to make great use of Tranium.
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
So the “VC” investors in new OpenAI round get 15% of the company. Pretty high percentage this late in the game.
@anisha_moonka Anish Moonka on x
OpenAI just raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation. That's 56 times its 2025 revenue. For comparison, Apple trades at roughly 9x revenue. Google trades at about 7x. But the interesting part is where the money actually goes. Amazon is putting in $50 billion. OpenAI
@openai @openai on x
Helping AI reach more people requires deep collaboration across the ecosystem. Today we're announcing new investment, with support from @SoftBank, @NVIDIA, and @Amazon, to scale the infrastructure needed to bring AI to everyone. https://openai.com/...
r/news r on reddit
OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank
r/wallstreetbets r on reddit
Amazon strategic partnership with OpenAI
@mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
Some numbers: More than 9 million paid business users More than 50 million consumers subscribed 1.6M weekly codex users 900M weekly active users
r/NVDA_Stock r on reddit
OpenAI announces the $30b investment (and $50b from Amazon)
@kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
Massive: “Amazon will also invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with an initial $15 billion investment and followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met.”
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
So AWS is the exclusive provider for OpenAI Frontier, and Azure is the exclusive provider for the OpenAI API.
@quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
Customers are all very excited about @awscloud Trainium once Amazon gives them an 11-figure check.
r/aiwars r on reddit
OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history
@chooserich Nick O'Neill on x
OpenAI just raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation and for context, $730 billion is more than 37% of the ENTIRE crypto market. Not Bitcoin. Not Bitcoin and Ethereum. All of it. Every token you've ever owned or traded ... add it all up. OpenAI is worth more than a third
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
I take @sama point on circular dealmaking concerns — that the revenue growth is key metric. And will leave profit concerns for another day. But also true that these companies are becoming something of a borg. If one goes down, it's more than a flesh wound for the others.
@zeffmax Max Zeff on x
Maybe important context tho, the startup OpenCode says it has roughly the same 😬 https://x.com/...
@om.co @om.co on bluesky
The underlying story of OpenAI's jaw-dropping $110 billion raise is really about Amazon, and how as a “cloud leader” it slipped when it came to AI, and recognizing the opportunity early compared to Azure. Now it's costing the company billions. om.co/2026/02/27/a...
r/news r on reddit
OpenAI raises record $110B from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank
@amycallahan Amy Callahan on bluesky
Good they can pay for the full cost of the data centers without dumping the costs on everyday people who are now paying excessive utility bills!!! [embedded post]
@edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky
Draining every single possible funding source available to keep OpenAI from dying as Sam Altman goes on TV and says “if money doesn't keep flowing into the system it fails” — www.theinformation.com/briefings/ op... [embedded post]
@dudufolio Dudu on x
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r/singularity r on reddit
OpenAI: Scaling AI for everyone
@nvidiadc @nvidiadc on x
📣@OpenAI is expanding its long-standing collaboration with us, scaling the next wave of frontier AI with: ✅ 3GW of dedicated inference capacity ✅ 2 GW of training on NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems Learn more now ⬇️
@ethanchoi7 Ethan Choi on x
👀 No existential risk here! Congrats to the @OpenAI team. Largest funding round in human history for a special company changing civilization and providing AI to all
@epochairesearch @epochairesearch on x
OpenAI's recent funding round nearly triples the amount they have raised so far. The Information has reported that OpenAI projects a $157B cash burn through 2028. This round, combined with $40B cash on hand, essentially matches that projection. [image]
@bfaviero Bruno Faviero on x
crazy that 2 & 20 for Masa is $2B and $20B

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OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each

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