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Funding Round: Seed (OpenAI)

Verdictconfirmed95%
1 check · 4/9/2026

The source confirms all three key fields: (1) The funding round is referred to as the initial commitment/seed funding for OpenAI; (2) The amount raised is $1 billion (1000000000), explicitly stated; (3) The date is December 2015 (2015-12), as shown in the blog post publication date of December 11, 2015. All values match the record exactly.

Our claim

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Company
openai
Company
OpenAI
Name
Seed
Date
December 2015
Raised
1000000000
Raised Low
1000000000
Raised High
1000000000
Instrument
donation
Notes
$1B pledged at founding by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Infosys, and YC Research.

Source evidence

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confirmed95%Haiku 4.5 · 4/9/2026

NoteThe source confirms all three key fields: (1) The funding round is referred to as the initial commitment/seed funding for OpenAI; (2) The amount raised is $1 billion (1000000000), explicitly stated; (3) The date is December 2015 (2015-12), as shown in the blog post publication date of December 11, 2015. All values match the record exactly.

Case № tthlwiiVfEFiled 4/9/2026Confidence 95%