This new funding includes a $50 billion investment from Amazon, along with $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, all against a pre-money valuation of $730 billion.
"We have many developers and companies excited to run services powered by OpenAI models on AWS," Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said."
"Our unique collaboration with OpenAI to provide stateful runtime environments will revolutionize what’s achievable for customers creating AI applications and agents." he added.In fact ,this funding round is still open, and OpenAI anticipates that more investors will come on board as it progresses.
"We are entering a new phase where frontier AI transitions from research to everyday use on a global scale," OpenAI said.
"Leadership will be determined by those who can rapidly scale infrastructure to meet demand and transform that capacity into reliable products for people."
As part of this investment, OpenAI is establishing major infrastructure partnerships with both Amazon and Nvidia. Similar to previous funding rounds, a significant portion of the total amount is expected to be in the form of services rather than cash, although the exact breakdown has not been revealed.
The company’s last funding round concluded in March 2025, raising $40 billion against a valuation of $300 billion. At that time, it was the largest private funding round recorded.Through its partnership with Amazon, OpenAI intends to create a new "stateful runtime environment" where its models will operate on Amazon’s Bedrock platform.
The company will enhance its previously announced AWS partnership, which had committed $38 billion in compute services, by an additional $100 billion. OpenAI has pledged to utilize at least 2GW of AWS Tranium compute as part of this agreement and also aims to develop custom models to support Amazon's consumer products.