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OpenAI announces $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank

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Source: CNBC TechnologyFebruary 27, 2026

Summary

OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round led by Amazon ($50 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion), raising the company's valuation to $730 billion. Beyond the investment, Amazon committed to an expanded $100 billion partnership over eight years to use AWS (Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing platform) as OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider and to develop customized AI models for Amazon's applications.

Classification

Attack SophisticationModerate

Affected Vendors

OpenAIAmazonMicrosoft

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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/open-ai-funding-round-amazon.html

First tracked: February 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM

Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%