The American generative artificial intelligence (AI) start-up OpenAI announced on Friday a record fundraising of $110 billion from three technology giants, bringing its total valuation to $730 billion.
The American giant Amazon will invest 50 billion $ in the creator of ChatGPT, while the American chip specialist Nvidia and the Japanese group SoftBank each contribute 30 billion.
A major player in online commerce but also the world’s leading provider of remote (cloud) computing services, Amazon will first release a first tranche of $15 billion, with the balance to be paid in a few months “once certain conditions are met.”
900 million users per week
OpenAI indicated that it had already planned to welcome new investments to complete this fundraising. The San Francisco group claims more than 900 million weekly ChatGPT users, making it by far the fastest-growing app on record.
OpenAI intends to maintain the pace and invest heavily in new computing capabilities to develop new AI models and rotate its existing range.
Currently, its turnover, which reached 13 billion $ in 2025, is significantly lower than its expenses, which implies consuming no less than 218 billion in cash by 2029.
The transaction concluded with Amazon allows OpenAI to diversify its partnerships, which was historically linked to Microsoft. The latter approached the start-up in 2016 with an initial agreement relating to the granting of IT capabilities to develop its AI models.
Since 2019, the Redmond (Washington State) group has regularly invested in OpenAI, for a total of more than $13 billion. “Nothing announced today changes the terms of the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI,” assured the latter in a separate press release.
