WASHINGTON, Oct 9 — OpenAI is bringing in about US$20 billion (RM82 billion) less in annualised revenue than investors had been led to believe, the Financial Times reported yesterday, raising questions about the solidity of the AI business.
Citing documents shared with OpenAI’s financial backers, the FT said the company put its annualised revenue at close to US$50 billion as of the end of September.
Media reports late last month had pegged the figure at US$70 billion based on information given to investors.
Investors track annualised revenue at OpenAI and Anthropic as the clearest signal of demand for artificial intelligence, and the figures help justify enormous spending on data centres as well as the AI-fuelled stock market rally.
