# OpenAI reportedly banks $11B at a $1.25 trillion valuation, with more money possibly coming

> Investors wired the funds this week, Bloomberg reports, and the round could nearly double. OpenAI carries more than $665B in chip and data center commitments.

- URL: https://devisdead.ai/news/openai-reportedly-banks-11b-at-a-1-25-trillion-valuation-with-more-money-possibl
- Published: 2026-11-08T23:22:48Z
- Author: DevIsDead Newsroom
- Section: Startups & Money
- Tags: openai, funding, valuation, ipo
- Originally reported by SiliconANGLE (https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/06/openai-reportedly-raises-11b-in-new-funding-at-1-25t-valuation/).

OpenAI has reportedly pulled in $11 billion in fresh funding, Maria Deutscher reports for [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/06/openai-reportedly-raises-11b-in-new-funding-at-1-25t-valuation/), citing Bloomberg sources who say investors wired the money this week. The backers weren't named. Microsoft, which joined at least four earlier rounds including March's $122 billion raise alongside Nvidia, Amazon and about two dozen others, is a likely participant.

## The numbers

The round could grow by up to another $9 billion over the coming weeks and is expected to value OpenAI at $1.25 trillion. That would put it on course to pass Anthropic, which is aiming for $1.5 trillion in its IPO, a price several of its own investors reportedly consider unrealistic.

Both companies are growing fast. Anthropic's IPO filing showed quarterly revenue up 1,127% year over year in the third quarter. The Financial Times reported last month that OpenAI ended that quarter at $50 billion in annualized revenue, up 77%, driven by enterprise sales that more than doubled. OpenAI President Greg Brockman said this week growth sped up once GPT-5.6 Sol launched in June, with ChatGPT Work and the coding tools helping.

## Why it needs the money

Infrastructure. The Information reported in July that OpenAI has more than $665 billion in chip and data center commitments. It has designed a custom inference chip with Broadcom to bring long-term hardware costs down, and plans to go public sometime in 2027. This cash is the bridge.

## Benchmarks vs. vibes

The valuation tells you the market still believes in OpenAI. The size of the commitments tells you why it has to keep raising. Revenue growing 77% a year is enormous, and still small next to $665 billion of obligations. Every round is a bet that the compute pays off before the bills come due.

For developers, the practical read is stability: OpenAI isn't going anywhere soon, and the push to sell into enterprises, where the growth is, will shape what ships next.

**[Scoreboard](/scoreboard) update:** AI +1. Investors hand OpenAI another $11 billion to keep building.

Stay undead.