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OpenAI losing 3x what it makes. Will porn save it?

Rob Beschizza
Oct 16, 2025
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explaining his business plan to a power loader operator.

OpenAI is valued at $500bn and has committed to spending more than $1tn on datacenters and GPUs and what-have-you in pursuit of all the things AI is good for. But it currently tallies only $13bn in annual recurring revenue and is losing about three times what it already spends…

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