{"id":387017,"date":"2026-01-24T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387017\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:04:12","slug":"openai-pulled-in-1-billion-from-something-other-than-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/387017\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Pulled in $1 Billion From Something Other Than ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has pulled in a billion-dollar month from something other than ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Sam Altman said in a post on X on Thursday that OpenAI added more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in the past month “just from our API business.”<\/p>\n

“People think of us mostly as ChatGPT, but the API team is doing amazing work!” the OpenAI CEO wrote.<\/p>\n

OpenAI’s API enables other companies and developers to embed its models into their own products, from internal productivity software to coding tools.<\/p>\n

Many of Silicon Valley’s high-profile startups rely on OpenAI’s models as core infrastructure. Perplexity uses OpenAI’s models to power parts of its AI search and answer engine. Harvey, one of the fastest-growing legal tech startups, is built on OpenAI’s models to assist lawyers with research and drafting.<\/p>\n

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Altman’s comments underscore how OpenAI’s infrastructure business is emerging as a key growth engine, even as the company faces massive costs for computing power<\/a> and data centers.<\/p>\n

Those pressures have pushed OpenAI to look beyond consumer subscriptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, the company said it is gearing up to test ads<\/a> inside ChatGPT as it faces about $1.4 trillion in spending commitments over the coming years.<\/p>\n

It’s a notable shift for a company that once treated ads as taboo. Less than two years ago, Altman said advertising was a “last resort.”<\/p>\n

“Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me,” Altman said during an event at Harvard University in May 2024. “I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model.”<\/p>\n

Since then, Altman has struck a more open tone. In June, he said on OpenAI’s podcast that he wasn’t “totally against” ads, though he stressed it would need to be approached carefully.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, OpenAI’s chief financial officer<\/a>, Sarah Friar, raised the idea of “licensing models” that would let the company share in downstream sales if a customer’s product succeeds.<\/p>\n

“Let’s say in drug discovery, if we licensed our technology, you have a breakthrough. The drug takes off, and we get a licensed portion of all its sales,” Friar said in an episode of “The OpenAI Podcast” published Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has pulled in a billion-dollar month from something other than ChatGPT. Sam Altman said in a post…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-387017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}