OpenAI
privateAI Research & Products
Creator of GPT-4, ChatGPT, o1, and o3. Raised $110B at $730B valuation (Feb 2026) led by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank. Co-led Stargate with SoftBank and Oracle — $500B committed over 4 years, $100B Phase 1 in Texas.
Guidance Tracker
Stargate Phase 1
On Track
“We are announcing a joint venture, Stargate, with an initial commitment of $100 billion that will immediately deploy.”
Guided: $100.0B
Actual to date: $19.0B
19%
Stargate Total (4yr)
Pending
“We intend to invest up to $500 billion over the next four years building AI infrastructure in the United States.”
Guided: $500.0B
Key Quotes
Sam Altman·CEO·2025-01-21
“This is the most important project of this era. We need to build the infrastructure for the next generation of AI.”
Stargate White House announcement
Compute Clusters
Stargate cluster
B200 (Blackwell)
400,000 GPUs (target)
announced
Partnerships & Investments
Microsoft
Microsoft primary cloud partner and $13B+ investor. Azure provides compute for OpenAI.
$13.0B
investment
SoftBank
SoftBank leading Stargate JV financial commitment. Masayoshi Son co-chair.
$100.0B
joint-venture
Oracle
Oracle building and operating Stargate data centers. Abilene TX campus.
compute
Amazon
Amazon invested $50B as part of the $110B round at $730B valuation. Includes infrastructure partnership.
$50.0B
investment
NVIDIA
NVIDIA invested $30B in OpenAI's $110B round at $730B valuation. Includes strategic AI partnership.
$30.0B
investment
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