Matt WolfeFutureTools.io · Founder of Future Tools | Host of Next Wave Podcast

OpenAI Just Made History (Holy Sh*t?!)

8 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this commentary, Matt Wolfe highlights OpenAI's historic $122 billion fundraising round that values the company at $852 billion, making it the largest capital raise ever and positioning OpenAI as possibly the fastest‑growing company in history. He notes that OpenAI now generates roughly $2 billion in revenue each month. Despite widespread rumors of a rift between OpenAI and Microsoft, the new round lists Microsoft as a participant, indicating continued financial backing. Wolfe also references the recent shutdown of OpenAI’s Sora product, explaining that it was losing about $1 million per day—over a third of a billion dollars annually—making its closure financially inevitable.

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This is the largest raise by any company ever. OpenAI raised $122 billion at a valuation of $852 billion. It also makes OpenAI pretty much the fastest growing company in history. They are now generating $2 billion in revenue per month. There's been a lot of talk about a falling out between OpenAI and Microsoft, and well, this new round that they just raised, guess who's listed here? Microsoft is in on this raise as well. So they're still pumping money into OpenAI despite all of the speculation that there's been a big falling out between the two. Side note, Sora got shut down last week, something that we went in depth in, in a previous video. But one thing that I found fascinating about this article is that Sora was losing roughly $1 million a day. With that context, it's pretty obvious why they had to shut it down. It was losing over a third of a billion dollars a year.