San Francisco, United States — OpenAI has announced a massive $110 billion private funding round, marking one of the largest capital raises in tech history and reinforcing intensifying global competition in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The round includes a $50 billion investment from Amazon and $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, valuing OpenAI at a pre-money valuation of $730 billion. The company disclosed that the round remains open, with additional investors expected to participate.
In a statement, OpenAI said the funding signals a shift toward large-scale deployment of frontier AI technologies across everyday applications.
“We are entering a new phase where frontier AI moves from research into daily use at global scale,” the company said, noting that leadership in the sector will depend on the ability to rapidly scale infrastructure and convert capacity into widely used products.
Infrastructure partnerships
As part of the investment, OpenAI is expanding strategic infrastructure collaborations with Amazon and Nvidia. The company indicated that a portion of the funding is likely structured as services rather than direct cash, though details of the split were not disclosed.
Under its agreement with Amazon, OpenAI will develop a new stateful runtime environment enabling its models to operate on Amazon’s Bedrock platform. The company will also expand an earlier AWS compute commitment—previously valued at $38 billion—by an additional $100 billion and consume at least 2 GW of AWS Tranium compute while building custom models for Amazon consumer products.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the partnership would accelerate the development of AI applications and agents running on AWS.
Conditional investment and Nvidia collaboration
Reports suggest that $35 billion of Amazon’s investment could be tied to OpenAI achieving artificial general intelligence or completing an IPO by year-end. OpenAI confirmed that part of the funding will be released once certain conditions are met in the coming months.
Details on the Nvidia partnership were limited, but OpenAI stated it has committed to using 3 GW of dedicated inference capacity and 2 GW of training infrastructure on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had earlier reaffirmed the chipmaker’s support for OpenAI amid speculation over its participation, stating the company plans to invest significantly in the AI developer.
The new funding follows OpenAI’s March 2025 round, which raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation—then the largest private investment round on record. Analysts say the latest raise underscores escalating global spending on AI infrastructure as companies race to scale compute capacity and deploy advanced models.
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