Implications of OpenAI’s Recent Funding Round of $122B at $852B Valuation

OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion post-money valuation.

The round was co-led by SoftBank and included Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and about $3 billion from retail investors.

Proceeds will fund compute infrastructure, chips, hiring, and next-generation model development while OpenAI remains unprofitable due to high training and inference costs.