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Here's why OpenAI Took In $13 Billion Last Year. Now It Wants a $1.4 Trillion Price Tag. Analytics Table

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OpenAI wants investors to value it at $1.4 trillion, a year after it took in about $13 billion in revenue. In this video we follow the money behind OpenAI's new funding talks. Who sets the price of a company that isn't on the stock market? What is the difference between a "run rate" and money actually booked? Where do the billions go, and why are so many of OpenAI's investors also the companies it buys computing power from? And what would have to be true for $1.4 trillion to make sense? ⏱ Chapters 0:00 A $1.4 trillion price tag 0:51 Who sets the price 2:23 Money in, money out 3:58 Where the money goes 5:44 What has to be true 7:31 What to watch 📄 Sources • The round: at least $30B at about $1.4T before the new money (Bloomberg, Sep 29) → https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-targets-30-billion-in-new-funding-at-1-4-trillion-value • UAE funds and BlackRock in talks; fixed price, no lead (Bloomberg, Oct 5) → https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/openai-in-talks-with-uae-funds-blackrock-for-30-billion-round • March round: $122B committed, $852B valuation (OpenAI) → https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/ • Earlier rounds: $157B (Oct 2024) → https://openai.com/index/scale-the-benefits-of-ai/ · $300B (Mar 2025) → https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates/ • 2025 revenue of $13.1B (CNBC) → https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html • Run rates of $2B, $6B and $20B+ (OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar) → https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence/ • Run rate: nearing $70B (Axios), ~$50B in investor figures (Bloomberg) → https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/scoop-openais-annual-recurring-revenue-nears-70b · https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-09/openai-expects-70-billion-in-annualized-revenue-by-end-of-2026 • $6.7B of revenue in April–June (Wall Street Journal) → https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-second-quarter-sales-show-tepid-growth-compared-with-anthropic-5cb42998 • ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion people a week (OpenAI) → https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-ads-format-and-measurement/ • $4.1B "net losses from investments in OpenAI", Jul–Sep 2025 (Microsoft 10-Q) → https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312525256321/msft-20250930.htm • $34B spent in 2025, audited figures (Financial Times) → https://www.ft.com/content/e15b0d7e-ff6b-4f16-ba7a-4068feddb828 • Oracle, more than $300B over five years (OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank) → https://openai.com/index/five-new-stargate-sites/ • Microsoft Azure $250B, $24.1B of revenue from OpenAI, ~25% stake (Microsoft annual report) → https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312526323660/msft-20260630.htm • Amazon's $50B investment and the $138B AWS commitment (Amazon 10-Q) → https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872426000026/amzn-20260630.htm • Nvidia's lease guarantees for the Ohio campus, capped at $105B (Nvidia 8-K) → https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000069/sbeoainvidia-portsrelease.htm • CoreWeave and Cerebras contracts: company filings (CoreWeave 8-K Sep 2025; Cerebras prospectus May 2026) • "Commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the next 8 years" (Sam Altman) → https://x.com/sama/status/1986514377470845007 • OpenAI's July plan: $36B → $350B revenue, ~$856B on compute, $278B of negative free cash flow (Financial Times, via Reuters) → https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/09/19/openai-forecasts-cash-burn-near-280-billion-by-2030-ft-reports • SoftBank's ~13% stake → https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20261001 • Confidential IPO filing (OpenAI) → https://openai.com/index/openai-submits-confidential-s-1/ The step-up, the 2% slice, the receipt total, the revenue needed at Microsoft's multiples, the share of the plan's cash burn and the paper value of existing stakes are our own calculations from these sources. ▶ More from Capital Letters Money • Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CapitalLettersMoney Capital Letters Money explains the money story behind the AI and business headlines. Every number in this video comes from a named source above and is checked against primary data: filings, government statistics and market data. The animation and narration are AI-generated; the research, script and fact-checking are done by a human editor. Nothing here is financial advice. If this helped, a like and a subscribe help us make the next one. What do you think: is OpenAI worth $1.4 trillion, or is this a price only insiders would pay? Tell us in the comments. #openai #aibubble #chatgpt

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