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OpenAI Is Getting More Efficient at Running Its AI, Internal Financials Show

As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run the servers that power ChatGPT’s subscription business and selling access to models to corporate customers. The company’s compute margin, its share of revenue after the cost of running AI models for...

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