OpenAI Raises Record $110B, Hits 900M Weekly Users
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this episode, we break down OpenAI’s record-breaking $110 billion raise and what it signals about the future of AI investment. We also explore how the company reached 900 million weekly users and what this massive scale means for competition, infrastructure, and the next phase of AI adoption.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the podcast, we're talking about the latest |
| 0:04.7 | news from OpenAI, which includes a $110 billion round of funding they just completed, and they have just |
| 0:12.7 | reached 900 million weekly active users on chat GPT. We're going to get into all of that, including what their |
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| 0:59.7 | get an annual plan. All right, let's talk about what's going on with Open AI. So like I mentioned, |
| 1:04.6 | they've just raised $110 billion in private funding. They, I mean, basically this is one of the largest funding |
| 1:12.3 | rounds in history. The round had $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Invida, and also |
| 1:19.6 | 30 billion from SoftBank. And then they had a $730 billion pre-money valuation for this. So the |
| 1:26.2 | entire round is open. They have additional investors |
| 1:29.9 | that are expected to join in the coming months. It's kind of interesting when you have around |
| 1:33.9 | this big, basically, I think they're just saying, look, $730 billion, this is the valuation. And |
| 1:39.1 | that might actually creep up for people coming in the future. But I mean, they're basically |
| 1:43.5 | proving to everyone, |
| 1:44.5 | look, we can get any amount of money, $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Nvidia, |
| 1:50.2 | $30 billion from SoftBank. And I think what's happening is these are kind of like the anchor |
| 1:54.7 | players in this round that are going to put in, write the huge checks. And then they're going to have |
| 1:59.5 | a lot of VCs and other capital |
| 2:01.1 | allocators come in, kind of top up the full fund. Here's what they said about it. They said, |
| 2:06.6 | we're entering a new phase where frontier AI moves from research into daily use at global scale. |
| 2:12.0 | Leadership will be defined by who can scale infrastructure fast enough to meet demand and turn |
| 2:16.8 | that capacity into products |
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