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AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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OpenAI

OpenAI is the maker of ChatGPT and the GPT model family, serving roughly 900M weekly active users with 50M+ paid subscribers — it filed its S-1 on June 8, 2026 ahead of a planned IPO.

224 Pulse stories
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RunPod

RunPod is a cloud platform providing on-demand GPU infrastructure for developers to build, train, and deploy AI/ML workloads.

2 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$180B
$122M
OpenAIRunPod
Last Valuation
$852B
$1B
OpenAIRunPod
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2015
Founded
2022
San Francisco, California, USA
HQ
Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Private
Status
Private
OpenAI investors
MicrosoftSoftBankNvidiaAmazonThrive CapitalSequoia CapitalKhosla Ventures
RunPod investors
Summit PartnersIntel CapitalDell Technologies Capital

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for OpenAI and RunPod.

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