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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 [...]

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First published:
July 10th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BmqKxL3BedDTCjer3/eaforum-xpost-a-breakdown-of-openai-s-revenue

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“[EAForum xpost] A breakdown of OpenAI’s revenue” by dschwarz, Lawrence Phillips

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