OpenAI’s annual revenue exceeded $20 billion in 2025, the company’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar said Monday, marking a substantial increase from about $6 billion in 2024.
According to details, CFO Sarah Friar in her blog said the sharp revenue rise closely tracked an expansion of the company’s computing capacity, which grew to approximately 1.9 gigawatts (GW) last year from 0.6 GW in 2024. Friar also noted that OpenAI’s weekly and daily active user numbers reached record highs.
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Friar said OpenAI’s platform now combines capabilities in text, images, voice, code and application programming interfaces (APIs). The next phase of development will focus on agents and workflow automation that can run continuously, carry context over time and perform actions across tools.
Earlier in December 2025, OpenAI launched its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday, touting advances in reasoning, coding and long-context processing as the Microsoft-backed startup races to reclaim ground lost to Google’s Gemini 3 in the escalating battle for AI supremacy.
Looking ahead to 2026, Sarah Friar said the company will prioritize “practical adoption” of its technologies, with particular emphasis on the health, science and enterprise sectors. She added that OpenAI aims to keep a lean balance sheet by favoring partnerships and flexible contracts across hardware and service providers rather than heavy ownership of infrastructure.
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