Winning 12,000 million dollars a year seems somewhat prodigious for any company, but not when that company is called Openai. The evolution of income is being remarkable, without a doubt, but both to her and others – and here Anthropic is another good example – something serious happens to them: that they continue to spend more than they earn.
12,000 million for OpenAi in 2025. As indicated in The Information, a new estimate that Openai’s “annualized” revenues will be 12,000 million dollars in 2025. The figure is a projection, but it is significant taking into account that in 2024 the estimated revenues were according to various sources of 3.7 billion dollars, although in Reuters they spoke that they had actually reached 5.5 billion dollars.
And 4,000 for Anthropic. The same medium also recently indicated how the estimate in the case of one of its great rivals, Anthropic, has also risen and is now at 4,000 million dollars. Just two months ago that figure had already been checked and was 3,000 million, which means one thing: both are growing in number of subscribers.
700 million “Chatgpteros”. Another of the data to which the information article points out refers to the number of weekly active users. According to their data, 700 million people use chatgpt at some point in the week, which marks a unique milestone for the company. It is true that the vast majority of them are users of the free version, but that base is what allows part of those who use the service for free end up pointing to any of the chatgpt subscription plans.
Income growth is being unusual in OpenAi and Anthropic, but both companies are spending absolute fortunes to end up being profitable. Source: Reddit.
It will win 12,000 million, how much will it spend? In Reuters they indicate that the internal estimates of the company also point to higher expenses. According to those projections, OpenAI will spend 8,000 million dollars, but that figure is dentra on direct operational expenses. There are many more associated expenses – investments, infrastructure, other financial obligations – and that makes OpenAi not profitable for now. We do not have estimated spending data for Anthropic, but it has an identical problem: it spends more than you earn.
Spectacular, but. Although this income in income is certainly extraordinary, it must be taken into account that to achieve this, these companies have been burning money “for years. The investment rounds that Anthropic and especially OpenAi have captured have allowed them to have a lot of room for maneuver to lose huge amounts of money without that at the moment that worries too much.
And they will continue to spend as possess. Especially in the case of OpenAI, which thanks to SoftBank’s support has great plans that will make it necessary to spend true fortunes. They have done it when buying the Jony Ive design study for 6,500 million dollars, but above all they will do it with the Stargate project, which still seems very difficult to complete.
But no profitability until 2029. Those responsible for OpenAi do not seem too worried, and we knew what the company’s financial road map was known weeks. They will continue to lose money until 2029, when supposedly – all is a free estimate, not a promise – will earn 100,000 million dollars. It will be then when the company will begin to be really profitable, but again, all this is a promise (or perhaps a hope). It could not perfectly be fulfilled … and even ending up falling short.
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