Funding: AI Evaluator Forum (AEF) & Accenture

Funding ● Confirmed 78% confidence first seen 12 September 2026, 20:50

Type: Funding
Status: Confirmed
First seen: 12 September 2026, 20:50
Latest source: 18 September 2026, 21:44
Sources: 30

AEF-1 AI Evaluator Forum (AEF) Accenture Anthropic Dario Amodei DeepMind Institute Demis Hassabis Elon Musk Garry Tan Google DeepMind Jack Clark Microsoft Microsoft AI models Mustafa Suleyman OpenAI Sam Altman Satya Nadella AI Austria AI safety Chris Lehane Claude Sonnet 5 FRONTIER Act Fortune GPT-4 GPT-6 Geoffrey Hinton Google Hugging Face Humanist AI code of conduct Jakob Steinschaden James Manyika MAI models METR Mercor Microsoft code of conduct Redwood Research Shane Legg SpaceX The New Stack Trending Topics United States Y Combinator alignment and safeguards alignment and safeguards testing embedded evaluators frontier AI frontier ecosystem incident reporting red-teaming shared test harness slow down AI third parties universal pause xAI

The deal

OpenAI $122 billion Late stage · announced 11 Sep 2026

Deal terms as reported in the coverage below.

Source coverage

11 Sep, 20:59 Funding · 11 Sep 2026 TechCrunch independent 12 Sep, 17:16 Funding: OpenAI & Fortune The Verge independent 12 Sep, 20:19 Funding: OpenAI TechCrunch independent 12 Sep, 20:50 Funding: OpenAI & Anthropic Fortune independent 12 Sep, 20:50 Funding: OpenAI & Anthropic Fortune independent 13 Sep, 06:13 Funding: OpenAI & Anthropic Trending Topics independent 13 Sep, 06:36 Funding: OpenAI & Anthropic Trending Topics independent 14 Sep, 01:37 Funding: Anthropic & OpenAI SiliconANGLE independent 14 Sep, 09:00 Funding: Microsoft & Anthropic The Verge independent 14 Sep, 09:35 Funding: Microsoft & OpenAI Fox Business newsletter 14 Sep, 15:20 Funding: Microsoft & Fortune Fortune independent 14 Sep, 15:20 Funding: OpenAI & Fortune Fortune independent 14 Sep, 16:27 Funding: Microsoft TechCrunch independent 14 Sep, 18:54 Funding: Anthropic BBC News independent 15 Sep, 03:30 Funding: OpenAI Fortune independent 15 Sep, 04:50 Funding: AI Evaluator Forum (AEF) & xAI Latent Space newsletter 15 Sep, 06:00 Funding: Hugging Face & Google Trending Topics independent 15 Sep, 09:30 Funding: Microsoft Microsoft AI newsletter 15 Sep, 15:40 Funding: OpenAI Fortune independent 15 Sep, 15:47 Funding: OpenAI & Anthropic TechCrunch independent 15 Sep, 21:45 Funding: OpenAI Fortune independent 16 Sep, 07:00 Funding: SpaceX & shared test harness CNBC newsletter 16 Sep, 08:00 Funding: OpenAI & Anthropic The Verge independent 16 Sep, 10:49 Funding: OpenAI The Wall Street Journal newsletter 16 Sep, 12:00 Funding: OpenAI & Anthropic Tech Funding News independent 16 Sep, 15:58 Funding: Anthropic & METR The New Stack 16 Sep, 21:07 Funding: Anthropic & OpenAI TechCrunch independent 17 Sep, 23:21 Funding: Google DeepMind & DeepMind Institute TechCrunch independent 18 Sep, 20:35 Funding: Anthropic & Accenture Anthropic official 18 Sep, 21:44 Funding: Anthropic & Accenture TechCrunch independent