{"id":247306,"date":"2026-01-20T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:45:09","slug":"openai-cfo-friar-2026-is-year-for-practical-adoption-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247306\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CFO Friar: 2026 Is Year for ‘Practical Adoption’ of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI<\/a> is going on all in on “practical adoption” of artificial intelligence<\/a> in 2026, according to its CFO.<\/p>\n

“The priority is closing the gap between what AI now makes possible and how people, companies, and countries are using it day to day,” Sarah Friar<\/a> wrote in a recent blog post.<\/p>\n

“The opportunity is large and immediate, especially in health, science, and enterprise, where better intelligence translates directly into better outcomes,” she added.<\/p>\n

There are signs the startup is already taking advantage of these opportunities. Data from Ramp showed that business spending on OpenAI<\/a> models surged to a record in December, outpacing rivals Anthropic and Google.<\/p>\n

Still, some investors and analysts are concerned about OpenAI’s huge financial commitments and whether the startup will generate enough revenue to make a profit in future years. For example, OpenAI has announced roughly $1.4 trillion in infrastructure deals, such as data centers<\/a>, in the past year or so.<\/p>\n

One potential source of new revenue is advertising<\/a>, something that OpenAI said on Friday it would start testing. CEO Sam Altman once labeled ads a “last resort,” although the move has been expected for months now.<\/p>\n

Friar addressed concern about OpenAI’s finances in her recent blog, noting that revenue has grown in sync with compute availability.<\/p>\n

OpenAI’s compute expanded from 0.2 gigawatts in 2023 to about 1.9 GW last year. Meanwhile, annualized revenue grew from $2 billion to more than $20 billion in the same period, Friar disclosed.<\/p>\n

That represents “never-before-seen growth at such scale,” Friar wrote. “And we firmly believe that more compute in these periods would have led to faster customer adoption and monetization,” she added.<\/p>\n

This did little to quell the critics.<\/p>\n

On Monday, tech blogger Paul Kedrosky reacted<\/a> to Friar’s blog post by saying: “Amusing reading from OpenAI CFO bragging that they are successfully selling dollars for $0.70 in huge volume.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is going on all in on “practical adoption” of artificial intelligence in 2026, according to its CFO.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-247306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}