OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history | TechCrunch

"We are entering a new phase where frontier AI moves from research into daily use at global scale. Leadership will be defined by who can scale infrastructure fast enough to meet demand, and turn that capacity into products people rely on."

"Together with Amazon, OpenAI plans to develop a new stateful runtime environment where OpenAI models will run on Amazon's Bedrock platform. The company will also expand its previously announced AWS partnership, which committed $38 billion in compute services, by $100 billion."

"OpenAI has raised $110 billion in private funding, the company announced Friday morning, commencing one of the largest private funding rounds in history. The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion pre-money valuation."

OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round, one of the largest private funding rounds in history, with $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, and a $730 billion pre-money valuation. The round remains open for additional investors. OpenAI emphasized that frontier AI is transitioning from research to global-scale daily use, with leadership determined by infrastructure scaling capabilities and product development. The funding includes significant infrastructure partnerships: with Amazon, OpenAI will develop a stateful runtime environment on AWS Bedrock and expand compute services by $100 billion, committing to 2GW of AWS Tranium compute and custom models for Amazon products. With Nvidia, OpenAI committed to 3GW of dedicated inference capacity and 2GW of training on Vera Rubin systems. Much of the funding likely consists of services rather than cash.

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