OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history
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OpenAI has secured $110 billion in private funding from major investors including Amazon ($50 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion), making it one of the largest private funding rounds ever. The company plans to use this capital to scale its AI infrastructure globally, including building new runtime environments on Amazon's cloud services and committing to use significant computing power from both Amazon and Nvidia. This funding round reflects OpenAI's goal to move frontier AI (advanced AI systems at the cutting edge of research) from research phase into widespread daily use across the world.
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Original source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/
First tracked: February 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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