The Chief Financial Officer of OpenAI, Sarah Friar, said in a blog post on Sunday that the company has surpassed total revenue of $20 billion in 2025, up from about $6 billion in 2024, driven by higher growth in computing capacity.
ChatGPT to start ads.
OpenAI last week said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to some US users, ramping up efforts to generate revenue from the AI chatbot to fund the high costs of developing the technology.
The company’s computing capacity has risen to about 1.9 gigawatts (GW) in 2025 from 0.6 GW in 2024, Friar noted in the blog she wrote. OpenAI’s weekly and daily active users figures continue to produce all-time highs.
OpenAI is ‘on track.’
The company is on track and generating full-blown revenue. Axios reported on Monday that OpenAI’s policy chief, Chris Lehane, said that the company is “on track” to unveil its first device in the second half of 2026.
Friar also highlighted that OpenAI produces text, images, audio, code, and APIs with just a prompt. The next phase will focus on the agents and workflow automation that run continuously, carry context over time, and take action across tools.
OpenAI’s 2026 focus is ‘practical adoption.’
For 2026, OpenAI’s focus is “practical adoption.” Specialising in the field of health, science, and enterprise, she said.
Friar said the company is keeping a “light” balance sheet by partnering rather than owning and structuring contracts with flexibility across providers and hardware types.
The company spends a considerable amount of money on infrastructure. OpenAI is working on “closing the gap” on what AI can do and how people actually use it. “The opportunity is large and immediate, especially in health, science, and enterprise, where better intelligence translates directly into better outcomes.”
The blog she posted was titled, “A business that scales with the value for intelligence.” It mainly focuses on the launch of ChatGPT and how it has grown its business.
Much of her blog post, titled “A business that scales with the value of intelligence,” is about how OpenAI has evolved since it launched ChatGPT and how it has scaled up its business. The company’s weekly active user and daily active user metrics “continue to produce all-time highs,” thanks to a “flywheel” across “compute, frontier research, products, and monetization,” according to Friar.
