OpenAI funding round: retail add $3B, valuation $852B

OpenAI tok say dem don close dia latest funding round wit $122B committed capital, wey raise dia valuation to about $852B. Di round bin led by Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank, while Microsoft still dey involved as long-term partner. Odas named investors include a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, TPG, BlackRock and Fidelity, among oda dem. One important new detail be say dis funding round allow access through bank channels for di first time, and dem raise over $3B from retail investors (individuals). OpenAI also update growth metrics: ChatGPT get 900M+ weekly active users and 50M+ paid subscribers, wit reported revenue now about $2B per month. Enterprise demand dey rise, business customers dey represent 40%+ of revenue, and OpenAI expect say enterprise revenue go match consumer revenue by 2026. On infrastructure, OpenAI report say API dem dey process 15B+ tokens per minute and Codex get 2M+ weekly users, plus around $4.7B revolving credit facility wey never draw. Di company still dey heavily rely on NVIDIA for training and inference, while dem dey deploy across Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, CoreWeave and Google Cloud. Next, OpenAI plan to build unified AI system wey go combine ChatGPT, Codex, browsing and agent tools. For crypto traders, dis funding round na more tech/AI commercialization signal than direct catalyst for any single crypto asset, but e fit reinforce broader risk sentiment around AI infrastructure and influence flows for di wider market.