Scaling AI for everyone

Source: OpenAI Blog

Funding Announcement

AI demand is surging across consumers, developers, and businesses. Meeting that demand and providing everyone access to our products requires three things: compute, distribution, and capital.

Today we’re announcing $110 B in new investment at a $730 B pre‑money valuation. The round includes:

• $30 B from SoftBank
• $30 B from NVIDIA
• $50 B from Amazon

Additional financial investors are expected to join as the round progresses. This funding expands our global reach, deepens our infrastructure, and strengthens our balance sheet so we can bring frontier AI to more people, more businesses, and more communities worldwide.

The valuation from this new round increases the value of the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in the OpenAI Group to over $180 B, further strengthening one of the most well‑resourced nonprofits in history and expanding its capacity to fund philanthropy in areas such as health breakthroughs and AI resilience.

Strategic Partnerships

Amazon

OpenAI and Amazon announced a multi‑year strategic partnership to accelerate AI innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world.
Read the full press release here.

NVIDIA

We are expanding our long‑standing collaboration with NVIDIA, including the use of 3 GW of dedicated inference capacity and 2 GW of training on Vera Rubin systems. This builds on Hopper and Blackwell systems already in operation across Microsoft, OCI, and CoreWeave. Together, this capital and infrastructure expansion strengthens our ability to train and deploy frontier models at global scale.

Product Scale and Impact

• Codex brings the power of a top engineer to anyone who wants to build software. Weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6 M. More people are now creating, automating, and shipping software that once required a full engineering team.

• ChatGPT is where people start with AI, with more than 900 M weekly active users and over 50 M consumer subscribers. Subscriber momentum accelerated meaningfully at the start of the year, with January and February on track to be the largest months for new subscribers in our history. Users rely on ChatGPT for learning, writing, planning, and building. As usage scales, the product improves in ways people feel immediately: faster responses, higher reliability, stronger safety, and more consistent performance.

• More than 9 M paying business users rely on ChatGPT for work. Startups, enterprises, and governments are building on the OpenAI platform to transform how their products and services are designed, delivered, and run. Teams start with individual productivity and quickly move to deployment across engineering, support, finance, sales, and operations. Our Frontier platform helps enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI coworkers.

Growth Metrics

• Weekly Codex users: 1.6 M (tripled YoY)
• Weekly active ChatGPT users: 900 M+
• Consumer subscribers: 50 M+ (record‑setting growth in Jan–Feb)
• Paying business users: 9 M+

These numbers illustrate the rapid adoption of our AI tools across both consumer and enterprise segments.

Mission and Future Outlook

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. This funding and these partnerships enable us to do both, accelerating our mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity.