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title: "Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an \"opportunistic\" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-openai-nears-an-up-to-30b-round-led-by-investors-from-the-uae-66e2259e
published: 2026-10-22T20:23:08.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-22 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-openai-nears-an-up-to-30b-round-led-by-investors-from-the-uae-66e2259e

Kate Rooney / CNBC : Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO — OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261022/p52#a261022p52)

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