OpenAI has secured $110 billion in new funding from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, valuing the artificial intelligence startup at $730 billion pre-money, the company announced Friday. The investment comes as demand for AI technology surges among consumers, developers, and businesses.
The funding round includes $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $50 billion from Amazon, with the potential for further investment from additional parties. Alongside the funding, OpenAI has forged a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured access to next-generation inference computing power from Nvidia.
Under the new partnership, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI will co-create a runtime environment based on OpenAI’s models, available through Amazon Bedrock. This will allow AWS customers to develop and scale generative AI applications. AWS will also become the exclusive third-party cloud provider for OpenAI Frontier, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and manage AI agent teams. OpenAI will utilize 2 gigawatts of AWS’s Trainium capacity to support the runtime environment, Frontier, and other advanced workloads.
Amazon will initially invest $15 billion, with a further $35 billion contingent on meeting certain conditions. OpenAI and Amazon will also collaborate to develop custom models to power Amazon’s applications for its customers. This expands an existing multi-year agreement between the two companies, increasing its value to $100 billion over eight years. OpenAI will commit to consuming approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity through AWS infrastructure.
OpenAI is also strengthening its collaboration with Nvidia, leveraging 3 gigawatts of dedicated inference capacity and 2 gigawatts of training capacity on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, complementing existing systems from Microsoft, OCI, and CoreWeave. This investment is intended to bolster OpenAI’s ability to train and deploy advanced models globally.
In a joint statement, OpenAI and Microsoft affirmed their ongoing partnership, stating that recent discussions regarding investments and partnerships are within the scope of their existing agreement. “The announcements today do not change the terms of our relationship, as outlined in our joint blog post from October 2025,” the companies said. Microsoft retains exclusive licensing and access to OpenAI’s model and product intellectual property. Collaborations like the OpenAI-Amazon partnership were anticipated within their existing agreements.
The revenue-sharing agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI remains unchanged, and Azure will continue to be the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI’s stateless APIs. OpenAI’s native products, including Frontier, will also continue to be hosted on Azure. The contractual definition of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the process for determining its achievement remain consistent.
OpenAI reported that more than 9 million paying professional users rely on ChatGPT for their work, and startups, enterprises, and governments are utilizing the OpenAI platform to transform their products, and services. The company also noted significant growth in subscription numbers, with January and February projected to be the strongest months in its history for new subscribers. ChatGPT currently has over 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million individual subscribers.
