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Sam Altman seeking funding from Middle East investors as skeptics question OpenAI’s financial and viability as a business

January 23, 2026

As the skeptics of OpenAI’s financials and viability as a business appears to mount, Sam Altman reportedly headed to the Middle East seeking at least $50 billion in additional funding, as reported by Bloomberg. The funding round would value OpenAI at $750 billion to $830 billion.

Bloomberg reported that Sam Altman is pitching Middle East investors on a fresh OpenAI funding round of at least $50B.

It would value OpenAI around $750B to $830B and the round could close by the end of Q1 2026.

What is new here is the scale and the investor mix, with Altman… pic.twitter.com/Is2o0Furza
— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) January 23, 2026

This comes as OpenAI has been barraged by skeptics who foresee OpenAI’s demise.

Ex-Fidelity manager George Noble’s scathing post went viral with over 3 million views:

George Noble, ex-Fidelity manager and now financial bubble siren, says “OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME”

OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME

I've watched companies implode for decades.

This one has all the warning signs.

OpenAI declared "Code Red" in December.

Altman sent an internal memo telling employees to drop everything because Google's Gemini 3 is eating their lunch.… pic.twitter.com/D9iJwOOmMe
— George Noble (@gnoble79) January 20, 2026

Here are more skeptics of OpenAI’s financials:

🦔 OpenAI released new financials showing $20 billion in "annualized revenue" for 2025, up from $6 billion in 2024 and $2 billion in 2023. They're also scaling compute from 0.6 gigawatts to 1.9 gigawatts. Sounds like a rocket ship until you look at the other chart. According to… pic.twitter.com/Rm8EXZn4ft
— Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets) January 22, 2026

OpenAI spends $3.30 to make $1.00.

Google spends $0.00 in supplier margin.

This single fact explains everything happening in AI right now, and almost nobody sees it.

The math:

OpenAI pays NVIDIA 75% gross margins on GPUs.
Then pays Microsoft markup on Azure.
Then covers its… pic.twitter.com/JLWIvkkuYi
— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) January 21, 2026

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