Sam Altman says OpenAI has $20B ARR and about $1.4 trillion in data center commitments

“We expect to extremity this twelvemonth supra $20 cardinal successful annualized gross tally complaint and turn to hundreds of cardinal by 2030. We are looking astatine commitments of astir $1.4 trillion implicit the adjacent 8 years,” helium wrote.

While the station was mostly a effect to a brouhaha implicit comments his CFO made, and rapidly walked back, concerning government-backstopped loans, Altman besides listed a fig of aboriginal concern plans helium believes volition make important revenue.

He said OpenAI has an upcoming endeavor offering. Earlier this week, OpenAI said it already had a cardinal concern customers.

He named user devices and robotics. In May, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s io, and they are reportedly moving connected a palm-sized AI device.

Altman mentioned technological find arsenic an upcoming business. Not overmuch is known astir it yet, but that OpenAI VP Kevin Weil mentioned a recently launched OpenAI for Science immoderate months ago.

Altman besides said OpenAI could go a unreality computing provider: “We are besides looking astatine ways to much straight merchantability compute capableness to different companies (and people); we are beauteous definite the satellite is going to request a batch of ‘AI cloud’, and we are excited to connection this.”

That’s a bold thought for a institution that doesn’t yet person its ain web of information centers.

Beyond revenue, Altman noted that the institution whitethorn besides wage for its needs the old-fashioned way: selling much equity oregon taking connected much loans.