Seattle, Washington, United States
$2.43T
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E-commerce and cloud computing giant. Parent company of AWS and major AI infrastructure investor.
OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to raise a new funding round that could be as large as $100 billion, valuing the company between roughly $750 billion and $830 billion. Reports on December 19, 2025 say potential backers include Amazon, SoftBank and Gulf sovereign wealth funds, with terms and final size still undecided.
Multiple outlets report that OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $100 billion in new funding at a valuation between roughly $750 billion and $830 billion. The Wall Street Journal says the round, still under discussion, could close as early as the first quarter of 2026 if investor demand materializes.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has created a new organization that unifies the company’s AGI group, Nova foundation models, custom silicon (Graviton, Trainium, Nitro) and quantum computing under AWS veteran Peter DeSantis. Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon’s AGI unit and a key architect of Alexa and the Nova models, will leave the company at the end of 2025, while AI researcher Pieter Abbeel will lead the frontier model research team. The leadership change was disclosed to employees in an internal memo and detailed today in multiple news reports.