Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)

<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260616/i20.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260616/p20#a260616p20" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ed Zitron / <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/">Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/">Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified &hellip; </p>