OpenAI secures record funding for AI development
OpenAI closes a funding round of 122 billion US dollars and reaches a valuation of 852 billion US dollars. The investments are intended to advance the development of AI technologies and promote the global dissemination of intelligent systems.
Acceleration of the next phase of AI
On March 31, 2026, OpenAI successfully closed a funding round, securing $122 billion in capital commitments. The company's post-money valuation stands at $852 billion.
Core infrastructure for AI
OpenAI is evolving into a core AI infrastructure, enabling people worldwide and businesses, regardless of their size, to easily create things. ChatGPT's broad reach creates a powerful distribution channel into the workplace, where demand is rapidly shifting from basic model access to intelligent systems that transform enterprise operations. Developers build upon and extend the platform using our APIs, and Codex is changing how developers turn ideas into working software. Enduring access to compute is the strategic advantage that multiplies across the entire system: it fuels research, improves products, expands access, and structurally lowers the cost of scaling delivery. Together, consumer adoption, enterprise deployment, developer usage, and compute form a reinforcing loop that translates capabilities into economic impact.
Record growth and revenue
OpenAI was the fastest-growing technology platform, reaching 10 million users, then 100 million users, and soon 1 billion weekly active users. Within one year of ChatGPT's launch, the company achieved $1 billion in revenue. By the end of 2024, it was already generating $1 billion per quarter. Today, OpenAI generates $2 billion in revenue per month. At this point, revenue is growing four times faster than companies that defined the internet and mobile eras, including Alphabet and Meta.
Global Capital Conviction
OpenAI's ambitions are underpinned by the commitment of the partners who support the company. The round was led by strategic partners such as Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank, with continued participation from long-standing partners like Microsoft. SoftBank co-led the round with a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
Expansion of the investor base
For the first time, OpenAI also enabled investments through banking channels and raised over $3 billion from individual investors. Furthermore, OpenAI will be included in several exchange-traded funds managed by ARK Invest to broaden ownership and allow more people to participate in the potential of OpenAI and the AI era.
Focus on consumers and businesses
OpenAI continuously implements advancements in ChatGPT, the API, and its enterprise products. The company recently introduced GPT-5.4, its most powerful model to date, with significant improvements in intelligence and workflow performance. Codex has been developed into a flagship coding agent. OpenAI has made progress in memory, search, personalization, and multimodal interaction, and has ventured into areas such as healthcare, scientific discovery, and commerce.
Strategic Advantage through Computing Power
Compute power drives every level of AI: from cutting-edge research and models, through products, deployment, to revenue. Since the launch of ChatGPT, both our revenue and our available compute power have rapidly increased, as the demand for intelligent systems has accelerated.
Building an AI Super App
OpenAI is working on a unified AI super app that integrates ChatGPT, Codex, browsing, and our broader agentic capabilities into an agent-centric experience. This is not just a product simplification, but also a distribution and deployment strategy to translate advancements in model capability directly into user adoption and engagement.