ClickHouse tops $350M ARR; OpenAI usage up 10x in circular AI financing
iamKierraD · x · 2026-08-25
ClickHouse has surpassed $350M ARR, up 40% since May, driven by AI agent demand, with OpenAI's usage up 10x in a year, per The Information. @edzitron highlights a circular financing loop: OpenAI is a big ClickHouse customer, Nebius owns 28% of ClickHouse, rents GPUs to Microsoft, which rents them to OpenAI.
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