OpenAI is minting cash right now — roughly $13 billion a year, according to the Financial Times.
And get this: most of that comes from people paying twenty bucks a month to talk to ChatGPT.
The craziest part: 70% of their revenue is just... subscriptions. Which is kinda wild when you realize only 5% of ChatGPT’s 800 million users are actually paying.
If you ask me, that's like Netflix funding a global supercomputer off a few dedicated binge-watchers.
But here’s where it gets wild: OpenAI isn’t playing it small.
They’re gearing up to spend over $1 trillion (yes, trillion) over the next decade building the infrastructure for the next wave of AI.
To get there, they’ve already locked in 26 gigawatts of compute deals with Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom — basically, it's enough processing power to light up a small country.
And yeah, the math doesn’t add up yet. $13 billion in revenue versus a trillion in future spend? That’s not a budget — that’s a dare.
So, OpenAI’s expanding fast. We’re talking about a five-year master plan that spans government contracts, shopping tools, video services, hardware devices — even selling cloud power through a secret-sounding project called “Stargate.”
The big idea? To go from AI app to AI infrastructure.
Not just ChatGPT in your browser — but ChatGPT baked into everything: your laptop, your bank, your car, your city’s data center.
If they pull that off, OpenAI doesn’t just dominate the market — it becomes the backbone of the digital world.
And here’s the twist: This isn’t just about OpenAI anymore.
Some of America’s biggest corporations are now relying on OpenAI to power critical systems. — from banking, logistics, security, even research. Which means if the company trips, it could send shockwaves through the economy.
But if Sam Altman and crew actually make the numbers work?
They don’t just become another trillion-dollar company — they create the trillion-dollar AI economy itself.
So yeah, five years. That’s the window. Turn $13 billion into $1 trillion — or risk becoming the most expensive science experiment ever run.
Either way… it’s going to be one hell of a plot twist.
