OpenAI Deals

OpenAI commits roughly $20 billion to build its first self‑developed 3.2 GW AI data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia, supported by a long‑term power and tax agreement with Georgia Power and local officials.

Poetic raised a $50M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to scale its "reliable AI" platform that automates complex, high‑stakes enterprise processes.

Parloa is formalising strategic integrations and an undisclosed strategic investment with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI and others to distribute its AI agent management platform across enterprise customer-service stacks.

OpenAI grants Japan’s three megabanks privileged access to its GPT‑5.5/GPT‑5.5‑Cyber models for cyber‑defence and vulnerability detection.

OpenAI’s nonprofit arm is setting aside $250 million for grants, partnerships, and internal projects to study and cushion the economic effects of AI.

OpenAI is committing over S$300 million to build its first overseas Applied AI Lab in Singapore in partnership with the Singapore government.

OpenAI acquires tech talk show TBPN, bringing its founders and media operation in‑house to expand communications and public conversation around AI.

DEWA becomes the first utility to integrate billing and EV-charging services directly into the ChatGPT Apps Directory for its customers.

Canva deepened its integrations with leading chatbots by letting ChatGPT and Claude users generate designs that automatically respect a brand’s Canva Brand Kit settings.

OpenAI, Kazakhstan’s education and digital ministries, Freedom Holding and Bilim Group are partnering to deploy 165,000 ChatGPT Edu licenses across the national education system.

OpenAI and other investors put roughly $252 million into Merge Labs’ seed round to pursue high‑bandwidth, noninvasive brain–computer interfaces tightly coupled to AI.

OpenAI led a $250 million seed investment into BCI startup Merge Labs to accelerate high-bandwidth interfaces between brains and advanced AI systems.

OpenAI and SoftBank Group are each investing $500 million in SB Energy to fund multi‑gigawatt AI data center campuses, starting with a 1.2 GW facility in Milam County, Texas, under the Stargate initiative.

OpenAI is acqui‑hiring Convogo’s three co‑founders in an all‑stock deal to work on its AI cloud initiatives while shutting down Convogo’s existing product.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Block and major cloud providers are co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to steward open, interoperable standards for AI agents.

Strategic education partnership to roll out ChatGPT Edu at scale and integrate OpenAI’s models into La Trobe University’s teaching, research and new AI‑focused degree programs.

OpenAI agreed to acquire neptune.ai to integrate its experiment‑tracking and training‑monitoring tools into OpenAI’s frontier model training stack.

OpenAI provides custom holiday tools built on ChatGPT to enhance NORAD’s annual Santa‑tracking program as a public‑facing AI partnership.

OpenAI is acquiring an equity stake in Thrive Holdings and embedding its teams to deploy AI across Thrive’s accounting and IT services portfolio companies.

OpenAI acquires an equity stake in Thrive Holdings in exchange for dedicated AI research and integration support to modernize Thrive’s accounting and IT services portfolio.

OpenAI to deploy 6GW of AMD GPUs, AMD issues warrant for up to 160M shares (10% stake)

OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's AI hardware startup io Products for $6.5B in stock

Nvidia is negotiating a 250 billion dollar financing guarantee to back OpenAI’s lease and construction debt for a 10 gigawatt AI data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, developed by SoftBank’s SB Energy.

Multi-year licensing agreement for Getty’s image libraries to appear inside OpenAI’s ChatGPT search and discovery experiences.

Visa and OpenAI entered a strategic partnership to embed Visa’s payment network into OpenAI’s agentic commerce experiences, enabling AI agents to initiate secure card payments on behalf of users.

The US Department of Defense announced agreements with seven major AI and cloud firms to deploy AI tools across military networks as part of an 'AI-first fighting force' strategy.

The U.S. Department of Defense signed classified-use agreements with seven leading AI providers to deploy their models on top-secret military networks, while excluding Anthropic over ongoing policy disputes.

OpenAI raised $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion valuation from a global syndicate led by Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank and major financial investors to fund compute, data centers and an AI superapp strategy.

Classified U.S. Department of Defense partnership to deploy OpenAI models on military networks after talks with Anthropic collapsed.

US Department of Defense contract to deploy OpenAI models on classified Pentagon cloud networks for national security applications.

Reported plan for Nvidia to invest about $20 billion in OpenAI as part of a much larger multi‑investor funding round.

Nvidia is reported to be nearing a roughly $20 billion equity investment in OpenAI as part of a multi‑investor funding round that could total up to $100 billion.

OpenAI is acquiring the team behind Convogo in an all-stock acqui-hire, shutting down the product and moving the founders into its AI cloud group.

SoftBank and co-investors fully fund a $41 billion round in OpenAI, giving SoftBank roughly an 11% stake in the company.

SoftBank completes a previously announced $40 billion investment into OpenAI, finalizing one of the largest private AI funding deals to date.

Disney agrees to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license 200+ characters for Sora in a three-year content and technology partnership.

SoftBank is working to deliver a previously agreed $22.5 billion multi-tranche investment into OpenAI to fund large-scale AI data center projects.

DOE signed nonbinding MOUs with 24 AI and compute organizations to apply advanced AI and high-performance computing to Genesis Mission scientific and energy projects.

OpenAI is in early-stage talks to raise up to $100 billion in new funding that could lift its valuation to roughly $750–830 billion, according to multiple media reports citing unnamed sources.

Preliminary talks for a potential funding round of up to $100 billion that would value OpenAI around $750 billion.

Disney granted OpenAI’s Sora a one‑year exclusive license to use over 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters for user‑generated AI video content as part of a broader three‑year partnership.

Disney becomes Sora’s first major content licensing partner and commits a $1B equity investment in OpenAI as part of a three-year AI content and enterprise technology partnership.

Disney makes a $1B equity investment in OpenAI alongside a multi-year character-licensing partnership for Sora-generated short videos.

Thrive Capital leads $6.6B secondary share sale at $500B valuation

Nvidia to invest up to $100B in OpenAI for 10GW AI infrastructure deployment starting 2026

SoftBank leads OpenAI's $40B round at $300B valuation, contributing $7.5B

Microsoft invests $13B in OpenAI for Azure compute partnership and exclusive cloud provider rights