OpenAI Hits Record $122B Valuation as Leaked Claude Code Sparks Open-Source Rebuilds

Investment & Industry News

OpenAI Raises Record $122 Billion in Historic Funding Round: OpenAI has secured $122 billion in Silicon Valley’s largest-ever funding round, valuing the company at $852 billion with participation from major investors like Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank. The massive capital injection is intended to accelerate the next phase of AI development amid growing anticipation for an initial public offering.

• OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI
  • https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/
• OpenAI closes record $122 billion funding round as IPO anticipation grows, valuing the company at $852 billion
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
• OpenAI Closes Silicon Valley’s Largest-Ever Funding Round

Software & Open Source

Claude Code Source Leak Leads to Community Rebuilds and Frameworks: The source code for Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, was leaked via a sourcemap, allowing developers to rebuild a working executable and modify its features. This leak has also led to the creation of "open-multi-agent," an open-source framework that extracts Claude's multi-agent orchestration system for use with any large language model.

• Claude rebuilt a working Claude Code executable entirely from leaked sourcemap, then edited its source to add a custom startup animation
  • https://github.com/andrew-kramer-inno/claude-code-source-build
• Claude Code's source just leaked — I extracted its multi-agent orchestration system into an open-source framework that works with any LLM
  • https://github.com/JackChen-me/open-multi-agent