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Bloomberg Tech · OpenAI Nears Deal for $100B in Funding · 19 Feb 2026 podcast

So phase one are the major companies that are gonna be partners investors in OpenAI.

So names like Amazon, which as we've reported could invest up to 50 billion, SoftBank up to 30.

You also have Microsoft, Nvidia and others.

So that is the first kind of part of this round, securing those allocations and that could come as soon as the end of this month.

Then they'll move on to the VC, sovereign wealth funds and other financial investors.

That's right.

So part of the deal, as we reported, is that this will involve an expansion of OpenAI's partnership with Amazon on using their cloud compute to run OpenAI's products, as well as the chips, the Amazon Tranium chips to be used in OpenAI's development.

Sure, there have been a lot of numbers out there.

And of course, with a deal this big that's been in talks for months, things kind of can shift.

But you might have heard the $730 billion number in terms of OpenAI's potential valuation in this round.

That is still, as far as we know it today, the pre-money valuation being discussed for OpenAI.

But with a round this big, once you add in that money, obviously, the post-money valuation could go up significantly.

So what we're hearing is now that once you add up all the strategics, which could easily top 100 if things go well, and then you have the financial investors, you could get to that 850 post-money valuation.

Yeah, if you think about it, OpenAI has hardware ambitions.

They have to build out all these data centers that they promised with Stargate.

They have to go and train these models that become bigger and bigger in terms of the amount of compute needed to get to what they want to call AGI, right?

So I think that there's...

There's obviously a lot of room for them to expand and go beyond just chat GPT into other business lines with this, as well as just there's this fierce horse race to make the next big model.

They have Anthropic, Google, XAI.

Everyone is going after the same prize here.

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