Insider reports: OpenAI sales could increase massively in 2025
Insiders expect the AI start-up OpenAI to generate a turnover of 11.6 billion dollars in the coming year. The company is currently still making losses.
Insiders conjure up a massive increase in turnover at AI start-up OpenAI – The speculation comes shortly before the end of the current financing round, in which Microsoft is involved among others.
(Image: Camilo Concha / Shutterstock.com)
The AI start-up OpenAI expects its turnover to rise from the previously estimated 3.7 billion US dollars in 2024 to 11.6 billion US dollars next year, according to several people familiar with the matter, as reported by the news agency Reuters.
The information could not be confirmed independently. Losses this year are therefore expected to be up to five billion dollars, which largely depends on spending on computing power, although this could change.
Financing round still ongoing
The new speculation comes at the end of the current financing round, which is in the form of convertible bonds: It is expected to be completed by the end of next week and could give OpenAI a value of 150 billion US dollars, according to Reuters, which would underpin the company's status as one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
According to Reuters, this depends primarily on whether OpenAI can be successfully restructured from a non-profit organization to a for-profit company. The cap on returns of one hundred times the amount invested is also to be lifted in the process.
OpenAI wants to raise 6.5 billion US dollars
In the current financing round, OpenAI wants to raise a total of 6.5 billion US dollars in capital, with investors including Microsoft (MSFT.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Nvidia (NVDA.O), Khosla Ventures and Thrive Capital.
Thrive Capital is currently offering 1.2 billion US dollars in capital. According to anonymous sources, Thrive has also been given the option to invest a further billion US dollars at the same valuation next year. However, Reuters was unable to independently confirm this information.
(usz)