The Biggest Bet in Tech History Artificial Intelligence has seen no shortage of headline-grabbing moments over the past few years, but one development from mid-2026 stands apart from the rest. OpenAI closed its largest funding round to date, raising $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, with major investments from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank leading the round. To put that number in perspective, $852 billion places OpenAI among the most valuable companies ever created, surpassing the market capitalisation of most nations’ largest corporations and approaching the GDP of entire economies. This is not just a story about one company raising money. It is a signal about where the technology industry…