OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
$2b/month which is $24b/year. Not as much as I expected considering they were at $20b by end of 2025.[0] They only added $4b since?
Anthropic had $19b by end of February 2026 and they added $6b in February alone.[1] This means if they added another $6b in March, they're higher than OpenAI already.
However, I heard that OpenAI and Anthropic report revenue in a different way. OpenAI takes 20% of revenue from Azure sales and reports revenue on that 20%. Anthropic reports all revenue, including AWS's share.[2]
[0]https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-cfo-says-annualized-...
[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-arr-surges-19-billi...
Except it's not 100x revenues, and it's not 17% growth. I don't know where you got those numbers from?
The numbers OpenAI gave in the post would mean a 30x multiple pre-money. And the $20B -> $24B run-rate growth since the start of the year could plausibly mean anything from 110% to 200% annualized growth rate, depending on whether that happened over two or three months. The $24B is a lower bound as well, since they only gave use one significant digit for the monthly revenue.