OpenAI seeks funding at $830B valuation
December 19, 2025 • 1m 22s
Scott Wapner (Anchor)
00:00.070
our
open
AI
looking
to
raise
more
money
which
could
push
its
valuation
to
eight
hundred
thirty
billion
dollars
mackenzie
sagalos
here
with
more
behind
that
big
number
mac
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter)
00:10.670
hey
scott
so
opening
eyes
valuation
getting
marked
higher
across
back
to
back
reports
roughly
an
eighty
billion
dollar
spread
over
twenty
four
hours
the
journal
now
says
opening
eyes
next
round
could
raise
as
much
as
a
hundred
billion
dollars
at
an
eight
hundred
and
thirty
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter)
00:24.390
billion
dollar
valuation
that
would
be
good
for
cap
table
names
like
softbank
which
recently
liquidated
its
entire
video
stake
to
go
all
in
on
open
AI
amazon
it's
the
biggest
new
investor
name
in
the
mix
but
those
talks
between
open
AI
and
amazon
are
as
much
about
a
commercial
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter)
00:39.270
partnership
as
they
are
about
equity
and
any
check
of
that
scale
would
likely
start
at
least
ten
billion
dollars
but
open
AI
at
least
at
this
point
not
confirming
the
valuation
number
saying
they
are
still
too
early
in
talks
and
they
don't
imminently
need
the
cash
open
AI
is
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter)
00:53.430
getting
another
twenty
two
point
five
billion
dollars
from
that
softbank
LED
round
by
the
end
of
the
year
and
most
of
its
compute
bills
don't
start
to
do
until
the
back
half
of
twenty
twenty
six
runway
the
buys
them
time
and
shifting
gears
here
while
these
financing
talks
play
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter)
01:07.790
out
open
AI
making
headlines
this
afternoon
with
some
compute
news
michigan
regulators
just
cleared
oracle
and
open
AI
to
power
a
new
one
point
four
gigawatt
data
center
campus
which
is
a
key
piece
of
open
AI
stargate
expansion
across
the
US
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