NEW YORK (EFE).— Yesterday OpenAI announced a financing round for 110 billion dollars, led by Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidiawhich raises its pre-financing valuation to $730 billion and consolidates it among the most valuable technology companies in the world.
The operation includes strategic contributions from 50 billion dollars on the part of Amazon, 30 billion from SoftBank and 30 billion from Nvidia, according to a company statement. OpenAI reported that it expects the incorporation of other financial investors in the coming weeks.
“AI is going to be implemented everywhere. It is transforming the economy, and the world needs great collective computing capacity to meet demand,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in an interview with CNBC. The manager said he was “excited” about the agreement.
The company announced that ChatGPT already exceeds 900 million users active weekly in the world and has more than 50 million paying subscribers. In the corporate segment, he indicated that more than 9 million business users They use the platform for productivity and development tasks.
In programming, OpenAI noted that Codex, a tool for developers, tripled its user base at the beginning of the year, reaching 1.6 million weekly users.
As part of the agreement, Amazon will make an initial disbursement of $15 billion, to which another $35 billion will be added subject to specific conditions in the coming months. The operation strengthens the position of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as OpenAI’s key technology partner.
Both companies will develop a “Execution Environment with State” (Stateful Runtime Environment), which will allow developers to create applications capable of maintaining context and memory from previous processes. The service will be available through Amazon Bedrock.
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, expressed on the social network X that he is “excited” about the “new strategic alliance” with OpenAI. He noted that developers and businesses are looking to run services based on OpenAI models on AWS, and that the collaboration will offer a stateful environment backed by the AI firm’s technology.
Jassy added that AWS will be the exclusive third-party cloud provider for “OpenAI Frontier”, a platform aimed at organizations deploying and managing teams of artificial intelligence agents with enterprise-grade security.
Likewise, he indicated that OpenAI will bet on Amazon’s customized Trainium chips, which – according to him – offer a cost-benefit ratio between 30% and 40% higher than that of comparable GPUs, in order to boost its growth.
For its part, OpenAI reported that it reinforced its infrastructure through an agreement with Nvidia to ensure next-generation computing capacity. The pact contemplates the use of 3 gigawatts (GW) of dedicated inference capacity and 2 GW for training in “Vera Rubin” systems, which will be added to the infrastructure based on Hopper and Blackwell chips.
OpenAI Secures historic investment
Mega investment drives global expansion and technological leadership of AI.
Financial impact
The round strengthens OpenAI’s financial position, increases its pre-financing valuation and consolidates strategic alliances with technology giants. The capital will allow us to expand infrastructure, accelerate research in artificial intelligence and sustain global expansion in diversified business and consumer markets.
Strategic alliance
Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia provide complementary resources and capabilities. AWS will be the exclusive cloud provider, will develop a stateful environment and will promote the deployment of business agents.
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