OpenAI reaches $500 billion valuation, surpassing SpaceX

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OpenAI has closed a $6.6 billion funding round from a group of investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank Group Corp., Dragoneer Investment Group, Abu Dhabi's MGX and T. Rowe Price. The deal values the company at $500 billion, surpassing the $300 billion raised in a SoftBank-led funding round earlier this year. The deal also puts OpenAI's valuation above SpaceX's $400 billion.

OpenAI is a non-profit organization, founded in 2015 with the original mission of developing AI for the “best interests of humanity”. However, after partnering with Microsoft in 2019, the company has shifted strongly towards commercialization.

The interest from major tech companies has helped make OpenAI the world's largest startup. It coincides with the signing of a new non-binding agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI, allowing OpenAI to restructure into a regular, for-profit company.

OpenAI’s rapid growth comes as a result of a boom in investment focused on leading AI companies. While it has yet to turn a profit, OpenAI is at the center of an “AI infrastructure boom.” The company recently signed a contract with Oracle and SK Hynix to support the massive Stargate AI data center project, valued at $500 billion. OpenAI, along with Oracle and SoftBank, also announced plans to build five new AI data centers in the US as part of the ambitious Stargate megaproject.

OpenAI is expected to receive an investment of up to $100 billion from chipmaker Nvidia, cementing its position as a leader in the race to build AI systems that can transform the economy and society. The move will allow OpenAI to expand the data center network needed to run ChatGPT, which is expected to reach 700 million weekly global users by August 2025.

Most recently, chipmaker AMD said on October 6 that it would supply AI chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that is expected to generate tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue and give ChatGPT creator the right to buy about 10% of the chipmaker. AMD said OpenAI will build a 1GW data center using its upcoming MI450 chip early next year and will start recording revenue at that time.

In the long term, OpenAI faces growing competitive pressure from rivals like Google and Anthropic, which are also raising capital at a rapid pace. In response, OpenAI has embarked on a series of new technology products, including two open, free AI models that can simulate human reasoning. A few months ago, China’s DeepSeek attracted global attention with its own open-source software. OpenAI is not far behind, releasing its most powerful model, GPT-5, in August 2025, to solidify its lead in an increasingly competitive field.

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