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Bloomberg: OpenAI completes an $11B portion of funding at a $1.25T value
OpenAI has closed $11 billion in funding at a $1.25 trillion valuation, with the remainder of a potential $20 billion round expected in coming weeks. The funding round represents a significant reduction from OpenAI's initial $30 billion target at $1.4 trillion valuation amid market challenges in the AI sector.
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Summary
OpenAI has closed $11 billion in funding at a $1.25 trillion valuation, with the remainder of a potential $20 billion round expected in coming weeks. The funding round represents a significant reduction from OpenAI's initial $30 billion target at $1.4 trillion valuation amid market challenges in the AI sector.
Tags
openai · funding · ai · valuation · venture-capital · technology · startup
Key entities
OpenAI (organization, 0.99) · Bloomberg (organization, 0.98) · Coatue Management (organization, 0.95) · T. Rowe Price (organization, 0.95) · SoftBank Group Corp. (organization, 0.95) · Sequoia Capital (organization, 0.95) · Founders Fund (organization, 0.95) · Andreessen Horowitz (organization, 0.95) · Anthropic PBC (organization, 0.92) · Natasha Mascarenhas (person, 0.9) · Rebecca Torrence (person, 0.9) · artificial intelligence (concept, 0.98) · initial public offering (concept, 0.95) · United Arab Emirates (location, 0.9) · US midterm elections (event, 0.85)
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analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Nov 2026