OpenAI has completed a 122 billion USD leverage deal with a valuation of 852 billion USD, the company's largest round of funding ever. OpenAI is expected to be listed on the stock market this year.
The funding round is co-led by SoftBank and venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, with the participation of many large funds such as DE Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, T. Rowe Price, as well as technology giants such as Amazon, Nvidia and Microsoft.
Notably, about 3 billion USD came from individual investors through the banking system.
New capital will be used by OpenAI to accelerate investment in AI chips, build large-scale data centers and attract leading talents, which are key factors in the current technology race.
In addition, the company also expanded its revolving credit limit to 4.7 billion USD, although unused, in order to increase financial flexibility for long-term plans.
Not only attracting attention by the scale of capital mobilization, OpenAI also announced many impressive growth indicators. The company said it is reaching revenue of about 2 billion USD per month and owns more than 900 million users operating weekly in the consumer AI sector.
The number of paid subscribers has exceeded 50 million, while search traffic has nearly tripled in a year.
Notably, OpenAI said revenue is increasing fourfold faster than the giants that shaped the Internet and mobile era such as Alphabet or Meta Platforms in a similar period. This shows that the speed of AI market expansion is happening unprecedentedly fast.
In addition, the company's advertising test program also brought in more than 100 million USD in annual revenue in less than six weeks, opening up a new direction for the business model that previously was not dependent on advertising.
In the business segment, OpenAI said that this sector currently accounts for about 40% of total revenue and may catch up with the consumer segment by the end of 2026.
The main driving force comes from AI-applied working processes and new models such as GPT-5. 4.
Notably, OpenAI positions itself as a super AI application, expressing its ambition to become the central platform for users to access all artificial intelligence services.
The appearance in ARK Invest's ETFs also helps individual investors indirectly access company shares, thereby expanding the shareholder base before the IPO.
Analysts believe that this funding round is not only aimed at supplementing finance but also a strategic step for OpenAI to build a growth story, strengthening market confidence before officially listing.
