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The American company OpenAI expects that by the end of 2030 the net outflow of funds will reach almost 280 billion dollars. This underscores the enormous long-term financial needs of the ChatGPT developer amid talks on a business valuation of over 1,2 trillion dollars.
This is reported by Dilo, citing data from the Financial Times.
According to documents, in the period from 2026 to 2030 the company forecasts a negative free cash flow of 278 billion dollars. Although the developer plans to increase its annual revenue by nearly tenfold—from 36 billion dollars this year to 350 billion dollars in 2030, and total revenues for this period are expected to reach 840 billion dollars, current operating costs will significantly exceed revenues.
Billions spent on chips and IPO postponement
The startup's current valuation is 852 billion dollars, and management is in talks about raising a new large funding round. According to sources, investors proposed valuing the company at 1,2 trillion dollars, but OpenAI representatives seek even higher figures.
Main factors of the company's financial burden:
the largest expense is the purchase of computing power and building out infrastructure, for which by the end of the decade they plan to allocate 856 billion dollars;
future revenues of chip manufacturers and data-center operators, including Nvidia, Oracle, and SoftBank, depend directly on signing large-scale contracts with OpenAI;
the company, which raised 122 billion dollars in March, according to the schedule, may exhaust it by 2028 year due to intense price competition with the American rival Anthropic and cheaper open models from China;
the planned autumn initial public offering (IPO) has been postponed amid market concerns about the risks of rapid AI development and investors' caution about the market's perception of a loss-making business.
As a reminder, earlier the creator of ChatGPT supported the idea of slowing down AI development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted that the latest systems should not outpace humans' ability to maintain control over the technology, but that approach does not mean a complete halt to progress.
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