OpenAI raised $122 billion in a funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $852 billion and setting a new record for a single funding round in Silicon Valley.

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Rumors suggest that OpenAI is preparing for an IPO by the end of 2026 with a valuation as high as $1 trillion. Following its latest massive funding round, the company has demonstrated astonishing revenue and user growth. (Previous coverage: RAVE plummeted 90% overnight! ZachXBT exposed insiders controlling 90% of the supply; Binance and Bitget have launched investigations.) (Background: Bitget TradFi Challenge concludes | Real-money trading of oil and silver highlights wealth effect.) (This article is a sponsored post written and provided by Bitget; it does not represent the position of BlockTempo and is not investment, purchase, or sale advice. See the disclaimer at the end of the article.) The funding round was led by SoftBank, Amazon, and NVIDIA, with continued participation from Microsoft, and follow-on investments from global institutions including a16z, MGX, D. E. Shaw Ventures, TPG, T. Rowe Price, Sequoia, BlackRock, Blackstone, Fidelity, Temasek, and ARK Invest. The $122 billion funding round pushed OpenAI’s post-money valuation to $852 billion, rewriting the record for a single funding round in Silicon Valley. This round marks the first time retail investors have been able to participate through banking channels, raising over $3 billion. According to foreign media, OpenAI has expanded its finance team, hired an Investor Relations lead, and initiated informal contact with major Wall Street investment banks, targeting a Nasdaq listing between Q4 2026 and early 2027, with a valuation potentially reaching $1 trillion. OpenAI states that ChatGPT is the fastest technology platform in history to reach 10 million and 100 million users, and is on track to reach 1 billion weekly active users faster than any other. Revenue exceeded $1 billion within one year of launch; quarterly revenue reached $1 billion by the end of 2024; and current monthly revenue in 2026 has reached $2 billion, growing four times faster than Alphabet and Meta did during the same period. The scale is staggering: over 900 million weekly active users, over 50 million paid subscribers, and 9 million enterprise paid users. ChatGPT’s monthly visits and mobile usage are 6 times that of the second-ranked AI application, and total AI usage time is 4 times the sum of all other AI applications. The API processes over 15 billion tokens per minute, and Codex has over 2 million weekly active users, growing 5 times in three months. Advertising pilots reached over $100 million in annual recurring revenue in less than six weeks. Enterprise revenue already accounts for over 40% of the total and is expected to reach parity with the consumer segment by the end of 2026. The 2030 revenue target disclosed to investors is $280 billion. A recently circulated OpenAI equity structure, deemed largely accurate by multiple media outlets, shows a highly concentrated distribution based on an $852 billion valuation: - Microsoft: 26.79%, cost approx. $13 billion, value $228.3 billion, 17.6x return - OpenAI Foundation: 25.80%, value $219.8 billion - SoftBank: 11.66%, invested $64.6 billion, value $99.3 billion, 1.5x - Employees and former employees: approx. 19.35% total - Amazon: 4.66%, invested $15 billion, value $39.7 billion, 2.6x - NVIDIA: 3.47%, invested $30.1 billion, value $29.6 billion, approx. 1.0x - Thrive Capital: 1.98%, 4.8x; a16z: 0.79%, 2.7x; Sequoia: 0.35%, 3.0x - Early angels (heavily diluted): 0.17% total, approx. 140x - Individual investors (Banking channel Series G): 0.35%, invested $3 billion, 1.0x - ARK Invest ETFs (ARKK/ARKQ/ARKG): 0.05% Source: Celebrity Net Worth Three key takeaways: First, retail investors only gained access to about 0.35% of the allocation in this latest round, and their cost basis is the latest valuation with no discount. Second, the return gap for the same company at different entry points can exceed 100x. Third, OpenAI has grown over 30x in less than three years, from a $27 billion valuation in April 2

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