
OpenAI Hits $1 Billion Revenue Month in July 2025; CFO Sarah Friar Highlights Compute Challenges, Stargate Initiative
OpenAI reported its first $1 billion revenue month in July 2025, according to CFO Sarah Friar. Despite this milestone, Friar emphasized that the company is "constantly under compute," highlighting an ongoing challenge in securing sufficient GPU and compute resources to support its operations. To address this, OpenAI has launched initiatives such as Stargate and is undertaking larger-scale builds to expand its computing capacity. Friar also indicated that OpenAI may eventually offer AI infrastructure services by selling access to its AI-optimized data centers and physical infrastructure, drawing a parallel to Amazon's AWS model. However, the current priority remains on increasing compute capacity to meet demand.
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- Techmeme
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (@samantha_subin / CNBC) https://t.co/J5oeuM25Do https://t.co/6zSayULc2l https://t.co/ZOzeer1FAj
- Wall St Engine
OPENAI CFO SEES FUTURE IN AI INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the company may eventually sell access to its AI-optimized data centers and physical infrastructure, similar to how Amazon built AWS. She stressed the focus today remains on securing capacity for https://t.co/aMrqGesu9W
- Squawk Box
"The biggest issue we face is being 'constantly under compute,'" says @OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar. https://t.co/CmFwLwyBNk
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