{"id":522805,"date":"2026-03-06T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522805\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:05:34","slug":"openai-finalises-funding-at-1trn-value-with-amazon-softbank-and-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522805\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI finalises funding at $1trn value with Amazon, Softbank and Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has raised $US110 billion ($155 billion) in a deal that values the start-up at $US730 billion, representing the ChatGPT maker\u2019s largest funding round to date and bolstering its costly push to secure more computing power and talent for AI development.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is investing $US50 billion in the financing round, OpenAI said on Friday (Saturday AEDT), by far the largest amount the e-commerce giant has put into any company. SoftBank Group and Nvidia each invested $US30 billion, the company said. The firm\u2019s new $US730 billion valuation doesn\u2019t include the money raised. Post-money, it\u2019s now valued at $US840 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has raised $US110 billion ($155 billion) in a deal that values the start-up at $US730 billion, representing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-522805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}