OpenAI is making more than $1 billion a month from something that has nothing to do with ChatGPT

Sam Altman says OpenAI's API business pulled in more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in the past month.

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• OpenAI has made more than $1 billion a month from something other than ChatGPT.
• That revenue comes "just from our API business," Sam Altman said.
• His comments come as OpenAI looks beyond model subscriptions to help cover soaring compute costs.

OpenAI has pulled in a billion-dollar month from something other than ChatGPT.