{"id":995482,"date":"2026-02-28T08:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995482"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:45:25","slug":"openai-clinches-840-billion-valuation-with-new-funding-from-amazon-nvidia-softbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/openai-clinches-840-billion-valuation-with-new-funding-from-amazon-nvidia-softbank\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI clinches $840 billion valuation with new funding from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#8217;s latest funding round valued the ChatGPT maker at $840 billion as Big Tech piled into the $110 billion blockbuster round, signaling the AI investment race is alive and well despite recent fears of a valuation bubble. <\/p>\n<p>The funding round &#8211; one of the largest private capital raises on record &#8211; includes a $30 billion investment from SoftBank, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $50 billion from Amazon. It comes ahead of the AI startup&#8217;s expected mega-IPO this year, and Wall Street expects more funding rounds before the debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#8217;s latest funding round valued the ChatGPT maker at $840 billion as Big Tech piled into the $110 billion blockbuster round, signaling the AI investment race is alive and well despite recent fears of a valuation bubble. The funding round &#8211; one of the largest private capital raises on record &#8211; includes a $30 billion investment from SoftBank, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $50 billion from Amazon. It comes ahead of the AI startup&#8217;s expected mega-IPO this year, and Wall Street expects more funding rounds before the debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}