OpenAI raised $11 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $1.25 trillion, a figure that places it among the most valuable companies in the world, according to The Verge, which on November 6, 2026 cited reports from Bloomberg.
The deal comes after a previous round in March that, according to The Verge, totaled $122 billion and left the valuation at $852 billion. The process is not closed yet: TechCrunch reports that the round is targeting roughly $20 billion in total, and The Verge notes that OpenAI is still seeking additional investors. For the Latino community in North America, the scale of these deals defines which artificial intelligence tools reach Mexico, the United States and Canada, and at what cost.
OpenAI originally sought $30 billion at a valuation of $1.4 trillion, according to The Verge. The ambition was adjusted after a drop in tech stocks, according to the same publication. In parallel, its competitor Anthropic filed its S-1 last week to go public, and potential buyers estimate its value at up to $1.1 trillion, below the $2 trillion expected a month earlier, according to TechCrunch. TechCrunch adds that there are expectations of an OpenAI public offering next year, while Sam Altman, the company's chief executive, said he prefers to refine the safety of its models before taking that step and that waiting too long does not serve the world either.
The round will close in the coming weeks, according to TechCrunch, and Anthropic's IPO will move into its pricing phase. With both figures on the table, the artificial intelligence market will have two concrete references to measure its size before the year ends and to track the pace of investment in data centers. The two moves advance in parallel: one private company setting a price and another seeking it in the open market.
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