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OpenAIOpenAI 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.
196 Pulse stories
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SoftBankJapanese multinational holding company and investment conglomerate that owns major stakes in telecom, semiconductor design (Arm), and AI infrastructure/data centers, and runs the Vision Fund venture investment arm.
9 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$180B
OpenAISoftBank
Last Valuation
$852B
OpenAISoftBank
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2015
Founded
1981
San Francisco, California, USA
HQ
Tokyo, Japan
Private
Status
Public (9984.T)
OpenAI investors
MicrosoftSoftBankNvidiaAmazonThrive CapitalSequoia CapitalKhosla Ventures
SoftBank investors
No investors on record.
Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for OpenAI and SoftBank.