“A breakdown of OpenAI’s revenue” by dschwarz, Lawrence Phillips, hnykda, Peter Mühlbacher, nikos, FutureSearch

We estimate that, as of June 12, 2024, OpenAI has an annualized revenue (ARR) of: $1.9B for ChatGPT Plus (7.7M global subscribers), $714M from ChatGPT Enterprise (1.2M seats), $510M from the API, and $290M from ChatGPT Team (from 980k seats) (Full report in https://app.futuresearch.ai/reports/3Li1, methods described in https://futuresearch.ai/openai-revenue-report.) We looked into OpenAI's revenue because financial information should be a strong indicator of the business decisions they make in the coming months, and hence an indicator of their research priorities. Our methods in brief: we searched exhaustively for all public information on OpenAI's finances, and filtered it to reliable data points. From this, we selected a method of calculation that required the minimal amount of inference of missing information. To infer the missing information, we used the standard techniques of forecasters: fermi estimates, and base rates / analogies. We're fairly confident that the true values are relatively close to what [...] --- First published: July 10th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ksdSjT7wREu6vBhYE/a-breakdown-of-openai-s-revenue --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.