With a $122 billion committed financing round at a $852 billion post-money valuation, artificial intelligence behemoth OpenAI has solidified its position as the most valuable startup in history by a considerable margin. This round eclipses anything raised in private markets.
Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank provided most of the investment, with Microsoft continuing to participate. Together with a16z, D.E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, and an account advised by T. Rowe Price, SoftBank co-led.
BlackRock, Blackstone, Fidelity, Sequoia Capital, Temasek, Coatue, and ARK Invest are among the investors on the list, which reads like a who’s who of global capital.
OpenAI raised more than $3 billion from that tranche alone after allowing individual investors to participate through bank channels for the first time.
According to OpenAI, its monthly revenue has increased to $2 billion from $1 billion per quarter at the end of 2024. ChatGPT boasts over 50 million subscribers and more than 900 million weekly active users.
The startup claims six times the monthly web visits and mobile sessions of the next largest AI app, and four times the total time spent compared to all other AI apps combined.
By the end of 2026, enterprise revenue is expected to equal that of consumers, currently accounting for almost 40% of total revenue. Over 15 billion tokens are processed each minute via the company’s APIs. More than 2 million people use Codex, its coding agent, every week—a fivefold increase in just three months.
Source: X.com
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