OpenAI expects to burn $280 billion by 2030 with deeply negative cash flows, per FT
SumitGup · x · 2026-09-19
Per the Financial Times, OpenAI expects to burn $280 billion by 2030 and run deeply negative cash flows, underscoring the enormous gap between frontier-scale compute spending and revenue.
Related event: FT: OpenAI Projects Negative Free Cash Flow of -$278B Through 2030(7 posts)→
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