Scaling AI for everyone — OpenAI
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Source: https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/
Date: February 27, 2026
Category: Company Announcement
Overview
OpenAI announced $110 billion in new investment at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, alongside expanded strategic partnerships with Amazon and NVIDIA. The funding and infrastructure agreements are designed to scale compute, distribution, and capital to meet surging global AI demand across consumers, developers, and enterprises.
Funding Breakdown
| Investor | Commitment |
|---|---|
| Amazon | $50B |
| SoftBank | $30B |
| NVIDIA | $30B |
| Total (announced) | $110B |
- Additional financial investors are expected to join as the round progresses.
- The capital will expand global reach, deepen infrastructure, and strengthen the balance sheet to bring frontier AI to more people, businesses, and communities.
Strategic Partnerships
Amazon
- Multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate AI innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers worldwide.
NVIDIA
- Expansion of long-standing collaboration.
- Infrastructure commitments:
- 3 GW of dedicated inference capacity
- 2 GW of training on Vera Rubin systems
- Builds on existing Hopper and Blackwell systems already in operation across Microsoft, OCI, and CoreWeave.
Product & Usage Metrics
ChatGPT
- 900M+ weekly active users
- 50M+ consumer subscribers
- 9M+ paying business users
- Subscriber growth accelerated meaningfully to start 2026; January and February on track to be the largest months for new subscribers in company history
Codex
- Weekly users more than tripled since the start of the year
- Current total: 1.6 million weekly users
Enterprise & Platform
- Teams typically start with individual productivity, then expand across engineering, support, finance, sales, and operations.
- OpenAI Frontier platform helps enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI coworkers.
OpenAI Foundation Impact
- The valuation increases the OpenAI Foundation’s stake in OpenAI Group to over $180 billion.
- Further strengthens what OpenAI calls “one of the most well-resourced nonprofits in history.”
- Expands capacity to fund philanthropy in areas such as:
- Health breakthroughs
- AI resilience
Strategic Vision
OpenAI states it is entering a new phase where frontier AI moves from research into daily use at global scale. It argues that leadership will be defined by:
- Scaling infrastructure fast enough to meet demand
- Turning that capacity into products people rely on
“We’re pushing the frontier across infrastructure, research, and products to make AI more capable, reliable, and broadly useful. SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon are long-term partners who share our ambition to turn real scientific progress into systems that deliver meaningful benefits for people at global scale.”
— Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI