Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (Financial Times)
Audited figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, underscoring the escalating cost of frontier model development and commercialization.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260616/p3#a260616p3" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e15b0d7e-ff6b-4f16-ba7a-4068feddb828">Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing</a></b></span> — Audited figures reveal mounting costs from model development, infrastructure and rapid expansion</p>
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