OpenAI Aims to Become an 'AI Super App', Completes Large-Scale Fundraising
Key summary
OpenAI said on March 31 it completed $122 billion in financing led by Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank, with Microsoft and large institutional and individual investors participating.
It will boost investment in computing and make broad infrastructure investments, continuing infrastructure updates to support rapid expansion of computing resources.
The company aims to build an AI 'super app' by integrating ChatGPT, Codex, browsing and extensive agent capabilities for an agent-first experience.
ChatGPT has over 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million paid subscribers; monthly web visits and mobile sessions are six times the second-place AI app, total usage time is four times, and search use has tripled in a year.
The ads pilot exceeded $100M ARR in under six weeks; enterprise revenue has grown to over 40% of total and is expected to match consumer business size by end of 2026. Codex has over 2 million weekly users, grew fivefold in the past three months, and usage is up over 70% month‑over‑month.
