Sam Altman Says Openai Has $20b Arr And About $1.4 Trillion In Data Center Commitments

In Brief

Rarely has a period gone by successful 2025 without OpenAI signing different multi-billion-dollar information halfway deal. In a lengthy station connected X connected Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publically clarified nan totals.

“We expect to extremity this twelvemonth supra $20 cardinal successful annualized gross tally complaint and turn to hundreds of cardinal [sic] by 2030. We are looking astatine commitments of astir $1.4 trillion complete nan adjacent 8 years,” he wrote.

While nan station was mostly a consequence to a brouhaha complete comments his CFO made, and quickly walked back, concerning government-backstopped loans, Altman besides listed a number of early business plans he believes will make important revenue.

He said OpenAI has an upcoming endeavor offering. Earlier this week, OpenAI said it already had a cardinal business customers.

He named user devices and robotics. In May, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s io, and they are reportedly moving on a palm-sized AI device.

Altman mentioned technological find arsenic an upcoming business. Not overmuch is known astir it yet, isolated from that OpenAI VP Kevin Weil mentioned a recently launched OpenAI for Science immoderate months ago.

Altman besides said OpenAI could go a unreality computing provider: “We are besides looking astatine ways to much straight waste compute capacity to different companies (and people); we are beautiful judge nan world is going to request a batch of ‘AI cloud’, and we are excited to connection this.”

That’s a bold thought for a institution that doesn’t yet person its ain web of information centers.

Beyond revenue, Altman noted that nan institution whitethorn besides salary for its needs nan old-fashioned way: trading much equity aliases taking connected much loans.

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