By Alistair Barr
Publication Date: 2026-02-27 18:33:00
When Elon Musk committed big money to start OpenAI in late 2015, he wanted to create another AI company to stop Google from dominating this important field.
While a lot has changed since then, the reason OpenAI exists still holds: Google has been working toward this AI moment for over 25 years, and it’s the beast to beat.
Take a look at the companies backing OpenAI, which raised a record $110 billion on Friday.
OpenAI’s largest corporate investors are fierce Google rivals that will benefit greatly if OpenAI manages to seriously challenge Google in the battle for AI supremacy and control over how digital information flows in this new era.
It’s become “everyone else against Google,” in my view. Here’s the breakdown:
Amazon is Google’s biggest cloud rival
The new big kahuna. Amazon is investing $50 billion in OpenAI.
Amazon competes with Google in cloud computing. AI workloads have become the big new growth…