Scaling AI for everyone
The company announced a $110B investment round, backed by SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon, to scale AI infrastructure and meet surging global demand.Summary
Driven by surging demand from consumers, developers, and businesses, the company is scaling AI access through significant investments in compute, distribution, and capital. They announced a new $110B investment round at a $730B pre-money valuation, including $30B each from SoftBank and NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon. This is complemented by strategic partnerships, including a multi-year deal with Amazon and securing next-generation inference compute from NVIDIA. These moves aim to expand global reach and deepen infrastructure to bring frontier AI to more people. Product usage reflects this scale: Codex now has 1.6M weekly users, over 9 million business users rely on ChatGPT for work, and consumer subscribers are accelerating, with over 50 million subscribers. The company believes leadership in this new phase will be defined by the ability to scale infrastructure fast enough to meet demand and translate that capacity into reliable products. This funding also strengthens the OpenAI Foundation's stake, enhancing its capacity for philanthropy.
(Source：OpenAI)