Nvidia(US:NVDA) Sou Hu Cai Jing·2026-02-28 02:05Group 1 - OpenAI completed a new funding round, raising a total of $110 billion, with a pre-money valuation of $730 billion, led by Amazon with a $50 billion investment, and participation from SoftBank and NVIDIA, each contributing $30 billion [1] - This funding round is more than double the record financing from last year, making it one of the largest private equity financings in tech history [1] - OpenAI has signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured the supply of next-generation inference computing power from NVIDIA, enhancing its global reach and infrastructure [1] Group 2 - Since the beginning of the year, the weekly active users of Codex have more than doubled to 1.6 million, while ChatGPT has over 900 million weekly active users, with personal subscriptions exceeding 50 million and paid enterprise users surpassing 9 million [1] - Following this funding round, OpenAI's cash on hand is approximately $40 billion, with projected revenue growth from $13 billion in 2025 to over $30 billion in 2026 [2] - The valuation increase from the funding round has raised the value of the shares held by the OpenAI Foundation to over $180 billion [2] Group 3 - OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit AI research lab by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, aiming to advance friendly AGI [4] - The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 marked a significant breakthrough, propelling OpenAI into the mainstream [4] - OpenAI established a capped-profit subsidiary in 2019 to attract external investment for computing resources, with Microsoft being a key financial supporter since then, investing approximately $13 billion [4] - The recent funding round does not alter the partnership with Microsoft, which remains strong and central to OpenAI's operations [4]