OpenAI insider: 'Astra genuinely shocked me' and 'ARR doesn't matter anymore'
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-06
Yuchen Jin relays a claim from an OpenAI friend: "The last few days feel historic. Astra genuinely shocked me. Forget the useless benchmarks."
Asked when OpenAI's ARR would pass Anthropic's, the friend reportedly replied: "ARR doesn't matter anymore."
Unverified insider talk, but it signals strong confidence in OpenAI's next capability leap and dismisses revenue comparisons as secondary.
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