OpenAI is preparing one of the largest corporate financing efforts in tech history, aiming to back over $1 trillion in AI infrastructure spending, according to the Financial Times.
The company is developing a five-year funding plan involving new revenue streams, debt partnerships, and large-scale fundraising initiatives to support its rapidly expanding infrastructure commitments. These include 26 gigawatts of compute capacity sourced from major partners such as Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom.
OpenAI currently generates about $13 billion in annual recurring revenue, with around 70% derived from ChatGPT subscriptions. However, the company is diversifying aggressively — targeting enterprise and government AI contracts, AI-generated shopping and video platforms like Sora, and even consumer hardware co-designed with former Apple designer Jony Ive.
The company is also exploring advertising models and AI agent monetization, while its flagship Stargate data center project positions OpenAI to become a global computing supplier for the AI economy.
OpenAI’s trillion-dollar financing plan marks a new phase in the AI arms race — blending Big Tech partnerships, sovereign funding, and enterprise monetization as it races to power the next generation of artificial intelligence.
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