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OpenAI nets $110b from SoftBank, Nvidia, Amazon
OpenAI announced US$110 billion in new investment commitments at a US$730 billion pre-money valuation, according to the company’s statement published on February 27, 2026.
The US$30 billion commitment will come from SoftBank, with the other US$30 billion from Nvidia and the rest of the investment from Amazon.
Additional investors are expected to join the three tech giants.
Separately, OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon and said it is expanding its long-standing collaboration with Nvidia to include the use of 3 gigawatts of dedicated inference capacity and 2 gigawatts of training on Vera Rubin systems.
ChatGPT’s maker also said the chatbot has more than 900 million weekly active users, over 50 million consumer subscribers, and more than 9 million paying business users who rely on it for work.
🔗 Source: OpenAI
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The US$110 billion funding includes infrastructure and service commitments
- Much of the package is expected to come through services instead of cash, though the split was not disclosed 1.
- Amazon’s US$50 billion pledge starts with US$15 billion, then adds US$35 billion in the coming months once certain conditions are met 2.
- OpenAI said it will expand its existing US$38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing unit, by US$100 billion over the next eight years 2.
- AWS will act as the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier, the company’s enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing teams of AI agents 3.
- Nvidia’s US$30 billion investment links to OpenAI plans to use 3 gigawatts of dedicated inference capacity plus 2 gigawatts of training on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, Nvidia’s next-generation AI computing platform 1.
OpenAI’s mega-round links frontier AI competition to infrastructure
- The raise, more than double the size of its last record-breaking round 2, ties growth to access to large-scale compute.
- Along with the money, OpenAI set out infrastructure partnerships with Amazon and Nvidia that widen distribution and capacity 3.
- These deals raise the cost of competing for smaller AI labs that cannot fund similar buildouts.
- Even so, OpenAI has reportedly cut its long-term compute spending target to about US$600 billion by 2030, which suggests pressure to match expansion plans with expected revenue 2.
