{"id":875545,"date":"2026-10-08T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875545\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:56:16","slug":"openais-annualized-revenue-20-billion-lower-than-prior-investor-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875545\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI’s annualized revenue $20 billion lower than prior investor estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OpenAI’s (OPAI.PVT<\/a>) annualized revenue is reportedly $20 billion short of prior estimates. <\/p>\n

According to the Financial Times<\/a>, the AI startup’s annualized revenue topped out at roughly $50 billion as of September, well below the $70 billion outlets previously estimated<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The dramatic swing is a result of investor miscalculations. The FT said investors who initially cited the $70 billion figure arrived at the number by comparing OpenAI’s revenue with Anthropic’s (ANTH.PVT<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Annualized revenue takes a snapshot of revenue for a certain period and extrapolates it across a year. But OpenAI and Anthropic calculate their annualized revenue differently. <\/p>\n

Investors initially tried to determine whether OpenAI’s sales reached $40 billion in August. Later, when OpenAI told investors that revenue grew 70%, they added that amount to the initial $40 billion estimate and landed on $70 billion. <\/p>\n

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At $50 billion, OpenAI’s annualized revenue would now fall below Anthropic’s $65 billion in annualized sales. <\/p>\n

OpenAI is widely anticipated to kick off its initial public offering sometime in early 2027, while Anthropic is rumored to hit the public market sometime before Thanksgiving, with its public S-1 investor prospectus expected to land any day now. <\/p>\n

Both companies are battling for enterprise customers, offering up products including coding and general-purpose AI agents. <\/p>\n

Last week, OpenAI held its annual developers conference, where it debuted its new Dots AI agents for enterprise workers<\/a> and its latest model, GPT-6.1 Sol. <\/p>\n

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