OpenAI announced it has closed a $122 billion funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion, marking one of the largest capital raises in history and positioning the company to expand its role as core infrastructure for artificial intelligence. The funding round was backed by major strategic and institutional investors, including Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and Microsoft, as well as firms such as Andreessen Horowitz and ARK Invest. OpenAI also expanded participation to individual investors through bank channels, raising more than $3 billion.
The company said the new capital will be used to scale research, infrastructure, and product development as demand for AI systems accelerates globally. OpenAI emphasized that its growth is being driven by a combination of consumer adoption, enterprise deployment, developer usage, and expanding compute capacity, which together create a reinforcing cycle of innovation and revenue.
OpenAI reported rapid financial and user growth, reaching $2 billion in monthly revenue and scaling significantly faster than earlier internet-era companies such as Alphabet and Meta. The company also noted that ChatGPT has surpassed 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million subscribers, while enterprise revenue now accounts for over 40% of total revenue.
In parallel, the company increased its revolving credit facility to approximately $4.7 billion, supported by major financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley.
OpenAI highlighted continued product momentum, including the launch of GPT-5.4, expansion of its Codex coding agent, and advances in memory, search, personalization, and multimodal capabilities. Its API platform now processes more than 15 billion tokens per minute, while Codex serves over 2 million weekly users.
The company underscored compute as a central strategic advantage, noting that its infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers, including Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud, as well as chip partnerships with NVIDIA, AMD, and others. OpenAI said this diversified approach enables it to meet growing demand while reducing costs and improving performance.
Looking ahead, OpenAI outlined plans to build a unified “AI superapp” that integrates ChatGPT, Codex, browsing, and agent-based capabilities into a single platform. The company believes this approach will streamline user experience, accelerate adoption, and deepen enterprise integration.
OpenAI framed the funding as part of a broader historical moment, comparing the current wave of AI investment to past infrastructure buildouts such as electricity, highways, and the internet, with the expectation that the economic benefits will expand globally over time.
