{"slug": "openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year", "title": "OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year", "summary": "OpenAI spent $34 billion in the past year, with $19 billion on R&D and $6 billion on sales and marketing, while generating $13 billion in revenue. The company's net loss jumped to $39 billion, largely due to a one-time $30 billion accounting charge, and it is preparing an IPO that could value it at over $1 trillion.", "body_md": "# OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year\n\n**OpenAI spent $34 billion in the past year, far more than the year before.** That's according to independent journalist [Ed Zitron](https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/), whose figures were independently confirmed by the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/e15b0d7e-ff6b-4f16-ba7a-4068feddb828).\n\nAbout $19 billion went to research and development, while nearly $6 billion went to sales and marketing. Revenue came in at roughly $13 billion. By year's end, monthly revenue hit $2 billion, up from $1 billion per quarter at the end of 2024.\n\nOpenAI's net loss jumped from $5 billion to around $39 billion. The Financial Times says most of that comes from a one-time, non-cash accounting charge of about $30 billion tied to the company's [earlier corporate structure](https://the-decoder.com/openai-and-microsoft-rewrite-their-deal-no-more-exclusivity-no-more-agi-clause/). Strip that out, and the loss sits at roughly $8 billion. OpenAI is preparing an IPO that could value the company at more than [$1 trillion](https://the-decoder.com/openais-ipo-slips-as-altman-tells-staff-to-expect-a-public-offering-within-the-next-year/).\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year/", "published_at": "2026-06-16 09:21:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 09:22:23.982294+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-startups", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Ed Zitron", "Financial Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-burned-through-34-billion-last-year.jsonld"}}