OpenAI Raises $41 Billion from SoftBank

OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research and deployment company that develops cutting-edge generative AI models, including the industry-defining ChatGPT and the GPT-5 series. The company’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity. By integrating advanced natural language processing with massive-scale computing, OpenAI focuses on building safe, powerful tools that redefine how people interact with technology and information.

OpenAI has raised $41 billion from SoftBank, granting the investor an approximate 11% stake in the firm. The platform’s ecosystem supports hundreds of millions of users and developers globally, driving innovation across sectors ranging from software engineering to creative industries.

OpenAI, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, was founded in 2015 by Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, and Wojciech Zaremba. In 2019, the company joined the unicorn club. This partnership underscores OpenAI’s transition from a research-focused lab to a global powerhouse at the center of the AI revolution, dedicated to deploying "human-level" intelligence that remains safe and aligned with global interests.