OpenAI will reach $20 billion in revenue this year

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has announced that the company will reach $20 billion in revenue this year and has committed $1.4 trillion in data center investments.

According to TechCrunch, in 2025, there was almost no month that OpenAI did not sign a multi-billion dollar contract to build data centers. Sam Altman has now revealed more details of the financial situation of this artificial intelligence company by publishing a post on the X social network.

OpenAI’s revenue has grown steadily over the past years

“We expect to end this year with an annual revenue rate of over $20 billion and reach hundreds of billions of dollars by 2030,” OpenAI’s CEO wrote. “We are looking at commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the next eight years.”

Altman also revealed some future business plans that could generate significant revenue for OpenAI. He said OpenAI is preparing a new enterprise service. Earlier this week, the company announced that it had one million business customers. Altman also mentioned consumer devices and robotics. In May, OpenAI bought Jony Ive’s io company, and the two are reportedly working on a small AI device.

He also mentioned scientific discoveries as a future business of OpenAI. Not much is known about the idea yet, except that OpenAI Vice President Kevin Weil announced a new program called OpenAI for Science a few months ago. Altman went on to say that OpenAI may become a cloud computing service provider.

“We’re also looking at ways to sell computing capacity directly to companies (and individuals),” he continued. “We’re pretty sure the world is going to need a lot of cloud AI, and we’re excited to deliver.”

Altman went on to point out that in addition to generating revenue, OpenAI may also use traditional methods such as selling more stock or taking out more loans to meet its needs.