According to The Information early this morning, citing an unnamed source,OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees:Over the past six months, the company's annualizedRevenueReached $3.4 billion(Currently about RMB 24.699 billion),Compared to the end of last year, it has doubledAltman also mentioned that OpenAI is expected to generate approximately $200 million (currently approximately RMB 1.453 billion) in revenue by providing access to artificial intelligence models through Microsoft Azure.
It is reported that OpenAI's annual revenue by the end of 2023 will be only $1.6 billion(currently about 11.623 billion yuan), and it was about 1 billion US dollars last summer (currently about 7.264 billion yuan).
Most of this income comes from ChatGPT A subscription version of OpenAI provides higher message limits for users who pay at least $20 per month. At the same time, some revenue comes from developers who use OpenAI's large language model in their own applications and services.OpenAI declined to comment..
Earlier this year, OpenAI completed a tender offer that valued the company at $86 billion. In recent months, OpenAI has been increasing revenue from its AI products by offering services to corporate clients. OpenAI has also begun training more powerful AI models to help it stay ahead of a growing number of well-funded competitors that are vying for the same users and businesses.