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Amazon Weighs Up to $50 Billion OpenAI Investment as Mega-Round Takes Shape

The talks highlight OpenAI’s push to assemble roughly $100 billion to finance compute-intensive AI development.

Overview

  • Wall Street Journal reports Amazon is discussing an investment as high as $50 billion, with CEO Andy Jassy negotiating directly with Sam Altman.
  • The Information says Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon are in talks to contribute about $40–60 billion combined, with Nvidia up to $30 billion and Microsoft under $10 billion, and term sheets described as near.
  • SoftBank is negotiating an additional investment of up to $30 billion after completing a $41 billion deal in December that gave it roughly an 11% stake.
  • The prospective round is reported to value OpenAI around $830 billion, reflecting surging capital needs for training and operating large models and for major infrastructure commitments.
  • Outlets note discussions remain fluid with no finalized agreements, and related talks include potential cloud and commercial arrangements such as expanded AWS usage and other supplier deals.