OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion

In Brief Posted: 10:39 PM PDT · October 14, 2025 Image Credits:Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Connie Loizos OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion OpenAI is printing money right now. The company is pulling in roughly $13 billion in annual revenue, with 70% coming from everyday people paying $20 a month to chat with an AI, according to the Financial Times. That’s pretty wild when you consider ChatGPT has 800 million regular users, but only 5% are actually paying subscribers. Raking in billions though it may be, OpenAI has also committed to spending over $1 trillion over the next decade (yes, trillion). The company has recently locked in deals for more than 26 gigawatts of computing capacity from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom…

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