OpenAI just announced a , which is one of the in Silicon Valley history. The investors feature many of the usual suspects, including Amazon with $50 billion, NVIDIA with $30 billion and SoftBank with $30 billion. This investment brings OpenAI to a $730 billion valuation
“We’re super excited about this deal,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman . “AI is going to happen everywhere.” That last statement seems more like a threat than a boast, but I digress.
Beyond the funding round, OpenAI has announced strategic partnerships with both NVIDIA and Amazon. This will involve Amazon Web Services (AWS) running OpenAI models for enterprise customers to “build generative AI applications and agents at production scale.” It also names AWS as the for OpenAI Frontier, which is an agentic enterprise platform.
OpenAI has also committed to consuming 2 gigawatts of Amazon’s Trainium capacity, which is the company’s custom-designed AI training accelerator. In other words, Amazon is spending a lot of money on OpenAI and then OpenAI will turn around and spend a lot of money with Amazon. The AI .
It’s also worth noting that Amazon’s investment in OpenAI will be staggered. The funding begins with $15 billion, but the remaining $35 billion will only be invested when certain conditions are met.
Oddly, it’s been reported that one condition is that . AGI is when AI evolves to or beyond human-level abilities, at which point the entire world turns into rainbows and everyone gets a pony. This could happen later this year, according to those , or never, . Sam Altman but has .
The new partnership with NVIDIA evolves the . OpenAI has pledged to consume 2 gigawatts of training capacity on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin systems and an additional 3 gigawatts of computing resources, likely in the form of GPUs, to run specific AI inference tasks. In other words, NVIDIA is spending a lot of money on OpenAI and then OpenAI will turn around and spend a lot of money with NVIDIA. .
As for revenue, OpenAI of $14 billion in 2026. It lost around and reports . Despite this trajectory, the company claims it’ll be raking in .
