OpenAI Targets $70 Billion in Annualized Revenue by Year-End
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A $70B annualized revenue target, driven largely by enterprise, means frontier models are already operating at hyperscaler-like scale. For buyers, that concentration of capability and spend raises both leverage and dependency—negotiate hard on roadmap access, SLAs, and exit options while the category is still fluid.
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