Reuters reports OpenAI is accelerating a roughly $30bn funding round ahead of Anthropic’s expected mid-November IPO, at a potential valuation above $1.4tn; OpenAI declined to comment.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar in her official OpenAI Forum portrait, used for the June 2026 finance event; an archive portrait, not a photograph of fundraising talks.

Published 20 Oct 2026 · 01:49 UTC

Reuters via CNA ↗ · Source dated 19 Oct 2026

Reuters reports OpenAI is accelerating a roughly $30bn funding round ahead of Anthropic’s expected mid-November IPO, at a potential valuation above $1.4tn; OpenAI declined to comment. · ournews.ai