Strategic investment · $110B
$110B in new investment announced at a $730B pre-money valuation.
Frontier Labs · Private company · Deployment
OpenAI
✓ VerifiedOpenAI remains the reference point for much of the market because it combines frontier model development with mass user distribution through ChatGPT, strong API adoption, and fast-moving coding and media products.
San Francisco, USFounded 2015API accessDaily review
Editorial intelligence brief
What matters now
Released the GPT-5.6 family on July 9, 2026, including Sol, Terra, and Luna variants across frontier, balanced, and lower-latency workloads.
Focus: General multimodal foundation models, reasoning, coding, video
Latest funding
$110B
Strategic investment · source-backed
Tracked funding
$116.6B
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
$730B
Pre-money valuation
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Deployment lifecycle position
Source-backed financial history
Capital and commercial trajectory
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
2
Tracked total
$116.6B
Coverage
partial
#1
Funding round · $6.6B
Running tracked total: $6.6B
#2
Strategic investment · $110B
Running tracked total: $116.6B
Every numbered chart marker maps to one source-linked funding announcement below.
OpenAI ↗ source for Strategic investment $110B
Funding round · $6.6B
$6.6B raised at a $157B post-money valuation.
Chronological activity
What changed
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6
OpenAI launched the GPT-5.6 family, including Sol, Terra, and Luna, across ChatGPT and the API.
model release · OpenAI
Recent coverage of OpenAI
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CNBC · Aug 14
IBM Partners with OpenAI to Accelerate Secure AI Deployment for Enterprises Across Core Operations
IBM Newsroom · 1 related source · Aug 13
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 TerraGPT-5.6 Luna
Products
ChatGPTSoraCodex
Open weights
No
API access
Yes
Review cadence
Daily
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Deployment: Production & at scale
Focus
General multimodal foundation models, reasoning, coding, video
Signals
ReasoningMultimodalAPI platform
Taxonomy
Media ModelsVertical + EnterpriseAgentic Coding ToolsAcademic + NonprofitOpen Weight LabsCodingCoding agentsVideoDeveloper tools
Competitive context
AnthropicGoogle DeepMindxAI
Infrastructure & distribution
Where OpenAI sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
3 tracked model families
02
Access layer
Managed API
03
Market layer
Frontier Labs
Public product surface
ChatGPTSoraCodex
Stack signals
CodingCoding agentsVideoDeveloper toolsReasoningMultimodalAPI platform
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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