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Funding Round: Seed (OpenAI)

Verdictconfirmed95%
1 check · 4/7/2026

The source confirms all three key fields: (1) The funding round name is 'Seed' (this is OpenAI's initial funding announcement), (2) The amount raised is $1 billion (stated as '$1 billion' committed by funders), and (3) The date is December 2015 (the blog post is dated December 11, 2015, which matches the claimed 2015-12). The numerical value of 1,000,000,000 equals $1 billion. All claims are directly supported by the source text.

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 · 4/7/2026

NoteThe source confirms all three key fields: (1) The funding round name is 'Seed' (this is OpenAI's initial funding announcement), (2) The amount raised is $1 billion (stated as '$1 billion' committed by funders), and (3) The date is December 2015 (the blog post is dated December 11, 2015, which matches the claimed 2015-12). The numerical value of 1,000,000,000 equals $1 billion. All claims are directly supported by the source text.

Case № tthlwiiVfEFiled 4/7/2026Confidence 95%