OpenAI Third-Quarter Revenue Soars Nearly 50% to $10 Billion
THE SO WHAT
$10B in quarterly revenue with ~50% sequential growth puts OpenAI in rarefied enterprise-software territory — and cements frontier models as a core line item, not an experiment. If you’re still in pilot mode, expect vendor leverage to increase and plan for multi-model strategies to avoid single-supplier dependency.
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