Odaily reports that OpenAI has raised $110 billion, valuing the company at $730 billion pre-money. Investors include SoftBank ($30 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion), and Amazon ($50 billion). The company has also established new strategic partnerships and acquired AI computing resources. ChatGPT currently boasts over 900 million weekly active users, over 50 million subscribers, and over 9 million paying enterprise users, and is expected to experience record growth early this year. This transaction brings the OpenAI Foundation's stake to over $180 billion.

In the past hour, total liquidations across the network reached $11.83 million, with $10.20 million from long positions, with $1.62 million from short positions. BTC liquidation $4.26 million, ETH liquidation $2.30 million.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the US January PPI month-on-month rate was 0.5%, below the expected 0.30%, and the previous value was revised from 0.50% to 0.4%. The US January January PPI year-on-year rate was 2.9%, below the expected 2.60%, and the previous value was 3.00%. (Jinshi)

According to an official announcement from OpenAI, OpenAI and Amazon have announced a multi-year strategic partnership. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, with an initial investment of $15 billion and the remaining $35 billion to be completed in the coming months upon fulfillment of certain conditions. The two companies will jointly develop a stateful runtime environment driven by OpenAI models, which will be made available to AWS customers through Amazon Bedrock and is expected to go live in the coming months. AWS will become the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for the OpenAI Frontier platform, which allows enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI agent teams. Regarding infrastructure, the two companies will extend their existing $38 billion multi-year agreement by $100 billion over an eight-year period. OpenAI has committed to using approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium computing power through AWS infrastructure, covering Trainium 3 and the next-generation Trainium 4 chip, expected to begin delivery in 2027. In addition, OpenAI and Amazon will collaborate to develop custom models for Amazon developers to use in consumer-facing applications, complementing Amazon's existing Nova series of models.

Huoxun Finance News, February 27th – According to Cointelegraph, open-source AI lab Sentient announced the launch of Arena, a production-grade testing environment for evaluating the performance of AI agents in enterprise workflows. Pantera Capital and Franklin Templeton's digital asset divisions have joined Arena's initial testing cohort. Sentient stated that Arena is not a static model test, but rather a standardized task test of AI agents by simulating enterprise conditions that include long documents, incomplete information, and sources of conflict. The platform tracks failure categories such as illusions, missing evidence, citation errors, and inference flaws to help developers diagnose problems. Arena plans to publish comparative performance metrics through public leaderboards and release test reports summarizing common failure modes and fixes.