November 7, 2026
OpenAI has completed a new financing deal worth $11 billion, representing the first phase of a broader financing round that values the company at approximately $1.25 trillion, according to what an informed source confirmed yesterday, Friday.
Two investors explained that the amount collected so far is less than the company’s original target of $30 billion, coinciding with the decline in the company’s total value from the $1.5 trillion ceiling it sought at the beginning of the offering. Reuters quoted the investors as saying that both SoftBank and MGX participated in this financing round.
This comes in light of the decline in market sentiment towards artificial intelligence companies over the past month. Some investors estimated the value of the anticipated initial public offering of the competing Anthropic company at about $1.5 trillion, a level lower than previous expectations that hovered around $2 trillion.
