OpenAI sells ChatGPT subscriptions to consumers and businesses and charges developers separately for API usage; its Codex product handles software work. Nvidia and SoftBank have reportedly paid the final $20 billion of commitments to OpenAI’s latest financing, according to The Information. Cinco Días, citing that report, said each company delivered the last $10 billion of a $30 billion pledge.

These are installments of an existing round, not a newly negotiated financing. OpenAI said in March that the round closed with $122 billion of committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation. Its original February announcement assigned $30 billion apiece to Nvidia and SoftBank, alongside a $50 billion Amazon commitment.

ChatGPT is the front door for individual users and employees, while businesses can buy managed workspaces and developers can put OpenAI models inside their own products through the API. For workplace users, the company offers tools for documents and connected applications; Codex focuses on coding, debugging, documentation and reviews.

OpenAI reported in March that enterprise products already supplied more than 40% of revenue, while its APIs processed more than 15 billion tokens a minute. It also said the company was generating $2 billion in revenue each month. Those are company-reported figures, but together they show the bet: convert broad consumer familiarity into recurring business and developer spending.

The capital and the supply chain overlap. OpenAI says Nvidia remains the foundation of its infrastructure: its training fleet and most inference workloads run on Nvidia GPUs. OpenAI also lists SoftBank among its data-center partners. Two of the round’s biggest investors are therefore tied to the computing buildout the financing is meant to support.

SoftBank has confirmed its portion, saying it paid a final $10 billion on October 1 and completed its $30 billion commitment. The company funded that installment with senior-note proceeds and said its cumulative OpenAI investment now totals $64.6 billion for an approximately 13% stake. Nvidia’s matching final installment remains reported by The Information rather than separately confirmed by Nvidia.

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