CNBC January 19, 2026
Key Points
– OpenAI will make 2026 its year of “practical adoption,” the artificial intelligence startup’s finance chief said in a blog Sunday.
– The startup’s compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to about 1.9 GW in 2025, while its annual revenue run rate grew from $2 billion in 2023 to more than $20 billion last year, CFO Sarah Friar said.
– “This is never-before-seen growth at such scale,” she wrote. “And we firmly believe that more compute in these periods would have led to faster customer adoption and monetization.”
OpenAI will make 2026 its year of “practical adoption,” the artificial intelligence startup’s finance chief said in a blog Sunday.
“The priority is closing the gap between what...
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