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Kantrowitz: OpenAI Will Go Public as a Trillion-Dollar Company
“And he did, you know, he did take a nonprofit and turn it into, you know, it's going to be a trillion dollar IPO company.”
Intrator: OpenAI has 800 million monthly active users
“They have a franchise that has eight hundred million monthly users of their product, which is fully one 10th, one out of every 10 human beings on the planet logs on to OpenAI.”
Roy: OpenAI will hit 1B users in 2026 but lose clear leadership
“I think a billion users. I don't think I think they're not the leader. I think Gemini's Google definitely starts to catch up. I think like everyone is biting off at different parts of the open AI. Empire, I guess if we call it that, but I don't think there's a…”
Albergati: Meta's Future AI Models Will Be Closed or Backend-Only
“I think at this point, the new models are either going to just be part of their products, like almost backend technology, or they'll be, you know, they'll be closed models, just like open AI.”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic Will File S-1 or Set IPO Timeline in 2026
“My prediction is, while opening a dozen IPO, Anthropic at least sets a timeline. If not, you know, files in S-One next year.”
Cramer: Oracle's $300B RPO Commitment Is a Bridge Too Far
“When you come up with that RPO number, 300 that was the bridge too far.”
Altman: OpenAI would double its revenue right now with double the compute
“We have never yet found a situation where we can't really well monetize all the compute we have. If we had, I think if we had, you know, double the compute, we'd be at double the revenue right now.”
Altman: Businesses tell OpenAI they would pay 10x for GPT-5.2
“Cause we hear all these businesses saying, you know, if you 10 X the price of GPT, 5.2, we would still pay for it. You're hugely underpricing this. We're getting all this value out of it.”
Altman: Google's Gemini 3 Exposed OpenAI Weaknesses But Failed to Hinder Growth
“Gemini three has not, or at least has not so far had the impact we were worried it might, but it did in the same way that deep seek did identify some weaknesses in our product offering and strategy.”
Altman: OpenAI Would Be Profitable Much Earlier Without Massive Training Costs
“If we weren't continuing to grow our training, Costs by so much we would be profitable way, way earlier. But the bet we're making is to invest very aggressively in training these big models.”
Altman: ChatGPT's Market Lead Will Increase Over Time
“ChatGPT is still by far the dominant chatbot in the market, and I expect that lead to increase, not decrease over time.”
Altman: GPT-5.2 overhang enables massive value even if model progress freezes
“The overhang of the economic value that I believe 5.2 represents relative to what the world has figured out how to get out of it so far is so huge that even if you froze the model at 5.2, how much more like value can you create and thus revenue can you drive? …”
Altman: OpenAI Will Ban AI Models From Pursuing Exclusive Romantic Relationships
“We're gonna give people quite a bit of personal freedom here. There are examples of things that we've talked about that, you know, other services will offer, but we won't. Like, we're not gonna let We're not gonna have RAI, you know, try to convince people tha…”
Altman: Thrilled by the Prospect of an AI Replacing Him as CEO
“I think a lot about how we can automate all the functions at OpenAI. And then even more than that, I think about like what it means to have an AI CEO of OpenAI. Doesn't bother me. I'm like thrilled for it. I won't fight it. Like, I don't want to be, I don't wa…”
OpenAI Plans to Launch ChatGPT Adult Mode in Q1 2026
“This is from Wired. Fiji on the call said the company now plans to roll out its adult mode in the first quarter of twenty-twenty-six. Altman had previously indicated users over 18 would be allowed to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT.”
Harvey CEO Views Investor OpenAI as Its Biggest Indirect Competitor
“Winston Weinberg, the CEO of Harvey, has actually said OpenAI is indirectly our biggest competitor, which is shocking because they're platformed on OpenAI and OpenAI is on their cap table.
but he says that every law firm we talk to is going to compare our pro…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI plans $1.4 trillion spend on future AI infrastructure
“Well, they're gonna have to spend, they're planning to spend 1.4 trillion on developing infrastructure for future model building. And the reason why they've have the money to be able to do that is because the world by and large thinks that they're the best at …”
Kantrowitz: Top AI models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are now commoditized
“We are now in the first moment where the state of the art models are really commoditized, where you could argue that Google and Anthropic and OpenAI have models that are They stand together. You know, some might be better for some activities and some might be …”
Kantrowitz: Anthropic targets 2028 profitability while OpenAI forecasts massive losses
“Anthropic is planning to be profitable by 20, 28, which I know sounds like a long way away. But in AI years, it's pretty damn good, where OpenAI is planning to lose more than a hundred billion dollars between now and twenty-thirty, and the losses will just bas…”
Roy: Google's vast distribution makes Gemini 3 a lethal threat to OpenAI
“What makes this so scary for ChatGPT is Google's distribution, because Claude going consumer is, like, non-existent when someone has to sign up, find about it, it's a whole marketing exercise, but If Gemini three fully replaces ChatGPT or is as good, that is r…”
Roy: OpenAI is fundamentally a vulnerable consumer business, not enterprise cloud
“OpenAI is a consumer-facing chat company. I know Sam Altman says they're going to be a cloud company and a consumer devices company as well, and they have a small enterprise business, but they're a consumer company, and that's where all of their business is, s…”
Clegg: Society will face a massive backlash over AI emotional intimacy
“I would say to him, you will regret this because maybe not now, maybe not next year, but a few years time, I can guarantee you there will be a societal backlash. It could actually potentially be much greater than it was for the social media apps because the le…”
Luria: OpenAI will generate at most $15B revenue, lose over $20B
“A company that at best will have fifteen billion dollars of revenue this year and will be losing more than that. So we'll be losing probably more than twenty billion dollars this year.”
Luria: Roughly half of Microsoft's AI revenue comes from OpenAI
“Half of their AI revenue approximately which is again, a big piece of the Azure growth, which is the biggest piece of Microsoft's growth, is coming from OpenAI.”
Luria: OpenAI promised $1.4 trillion across Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, CoreWeave
“OpenAI promised me three hundred billion. They also promised Microsoft two hundred billion, Amazon thirty eight billion, CoreWeave twenty five billion. In total, 1.4 trillion dollars.”
Kantrowitz: AI price wars will destroy OpenAI's profit-sharing business models
“Somebody else is just gonna develop super intelligence as well, and they're gonna get into a price war.
So how long can you say, I want a party of the profit of this drug that you're gonna develop with our technology?
Where like somebody else can be like, well…”
Siegler: OpenAI's IPO will be the largest in history
“I mean, given their fundraisers are bigger than any IPOs ever. So this has to be, you know an all time record IPO in the making.”
Siegler: AI spending requires AGI to avoid a massive business letdown
“Unless they do truly transform everything with the, you know, again, we call it, we can call it AGI. We can call it super, super intelligence. We can call it anything we want, but unless it truly transforms everything, it feels like it will be a, both a letdow…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI could raise $200 billion at a $1 trillion valuation today
“If open eye were to IPO today and wanted to raise, let's say, two hundred billion at a trillion dollar valuation, it could do it.”
Siegler: An Nvidia earnings miss could trigger a cascading market selloff
“Even if everything goes great for all of these companies, if something just happens in the macro markets and like causes Nvidia to slip on earnings one quarter, you see like this cascading effect. It's not hard to see. Like you can see how all of a sudden they…”
Siegler: Leaked financials show OpenAI delayed its profitability target to 2030
“We already know, at least from leaked financials, they're not going to be anywhere near profitability anytime soon in 20, 27. And they're saying, I think the most recent one said 20, 30, right? They pushed it out another year.”
Altman memo reveals OpenAI's plan to build its own enterprise AI cloud
“Eventually we want to offer an AI cloud that enables huge businesses.”
Roy: OpenAI will generate $13B revenue and lose $20B in 2025
“Their revenue is going to be thirteen billion this year, and I think it's twenty billion they're losing this year.”
Roy: OpenAI Prioritizes High Compute Usage Over Efficiency
“Open AI, they're building things that just, they're not worried about efficiency. They're worried about actually, does it use more compute? Cause that's going to look great to the market. As counterintuitive as it shows, or as it may seem, it'll look good to t…”
Heitzman: FirstMark sees no sustainable consumer AI startups, only ChatGPT wrappers
“So we've found sadly, that, you know, we haven't seen this wave of startups that we believe are sustainable. So there's actually been a handful of startups that are Wrappers on ChatGPT that are maybe a little bit better at travel. They might be a little bit be…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is projected to lose $120B through 2029
“OpenAI is expected to lose a hundred twenty billion between now and 2029.”
Siegler: OpenAI must build Google Cloud before Google builds ChatGPT
“And so my headline idea was basically open AI needs to build Google cloud before Google can build chat GPT.”
Kantrowitz: AI market exuberance is a red flag amid slow enterprise adoption
“Like this exuberance in the stock market is based off of infrastructure spend and not revenue. It's all based off of revenue projections. And those rep revenue projections are extremely aggressive, especially when you consider the fact that enterprises are mov…”
Siegler: Minor AI slowdown could trigger systemic debt collapse
“If a slowdown happens in, in several of, on several of these fronts on any number of, sorry, I should say on any one of these, like several fronts that are going right now, it can start like, it seems like it would start a cascading effect that would potential…”
Siegler: Equity concessions have become table stakes in AI chip deals
“So it's like, it all feels like the same sort of general playbook, just being executed in different ways where it's like now all of a sudden ownership is sort of table stakes to these deals, right? Even when it's a company that's a, that's technically still a …”
OpenAI's consumer business has already eclipsed its nonprofit mission
“At what point does open AI's consumer business overtake its nonprofit mission? I think it's already there.”
Maintaining leadership in AI coding models is existential for Anthropic's business
“And I think that Anthropic, you know, for OpenAI, I mean, coding models are just a small piece of their business. ChatGPT is kind of the big tuna for them, but for Anthropic, I mean, this is existential, like they need to lead in coding and this is their attem…”
Microsoft accesses OpenAI's top models regardless of where they are trained
“Part of what makes our partnership with OpenAI unique is the fact that we do have access to the best models, frankly, whether they're trained on our infrastructure or anywhere else.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI projected to lose over $100B between 2025 and 2029
“So OpenAI is expected to bring in around thirteen billion in sales this year. And I'm looking at these numbers. I mean, and by the way, it's going to lose money, right? We think the data is, or the expectations is that between now and 20, 29, it's supposed to …”
No clear revenue growth path justifies massive AI compute spending
“No one has tried to pretend that there's a clear revenue growth path to meet this. So it has to be from funding of some sort, and maybe people will keep plowing money into it, but it certainly, none of it adds up in a simple way.”
Kantrowitz: AI models with memory will deliver the most personalized ads
“This is an advertising play. There is no doubt in my mind that as you, as these models learn more about you, and memory is a big thing, they will provide, and we've talked about this in the past, the world's most personalized ads.”
Levie: AI lab losses are a strategic choice to subsidize market dominance
“And the losses are a choice, to be clear. Like, that's very obvious. Like, they're choosing to lose that money. They're doing it, ah, for a strategic reason. You know, that, that's at least their decision. The strategic reason is, is that this is such a valuab…”