OpenAI raises $8.3 billion and reaches a valuation of $300 billion

OpenAI has completed a new funding round totaling $8.3 billion, reaching a valuation of $300 billion. This transaction is part of the $40 billion round announced last March.

Dragoneer Investment Group led the transaction with a contribution of $2.8 billion. The groups Blackstone, TPG, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity Management, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Tiger Global, and Thrive Capital also participated.

There was an oversubscription in funding

Since the announcement in March of this ambitious global round of $300 billion led by SoftBank, featuring an initial injection of $30 billion and a syndicate that included Microsoft, Coatue, and Altimeter, OpenAI has been accelerating its financial plans.

This most recent round saw demand five times greater than supply, which required the technology company to reduce the stakes of some early investors and prioritize long-term strategic partners. In fact, the $8.3 billion transaction completes ahead of schedule the goal of raising an additional $7.5 billion during 2025.

Growth and market reach

OpenAI’s annual recurring revenues have surged to $13 billion last month, compared to $10 billion recorded in June, and the company projects it will surpass $20 billion before the year ends.

Additionally, the number of enterprise users of ChatGPT has increased to five million, up from three million just a few months ago, with more than 2.5 billion prompts processed by the platform daily.

Reasons for this investment momentum

The appetite of investors is the result of OpenAI’s robust operational growth, coupled with an ambitious vision: to advance toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), to scale computational infrastructure, and to monetize new applications for millions of users worldwide.

The €272.73 billion valuation places the company on par with major global brands such as Coca‑Cola, Novo Nordisk, Chevron, or LVMH, and only behind private giants such as SpaceX and ByteDance.

Competition and strategic negotiations

Through this transaction, OpenAI strengthens its position as one of the world’s most valuable unlisted startups. In fact, Microsoft, one of the technology company’s main shareholders, is engaged in advanced negotiations to secure extended access to the firm’s key technology—something that could define the post-round relationship between the two organizations.

Meanwhile, OpenAI is competing directly with other powerful companies in the artificial intelligence sector such as xAI (led by Elon Musk), Alphabet (Google), and Meta, in an increasingly intense race to lead innovation and corporate adoption.

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