New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- OpenAI's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Sarah Friar, recently outlined how the company's revenue growth was driven by a business model that ties financial success directly to the value delivered by its AI products.

According to the CFO's blog post, OpenAI's yearly revenue run rate surpassed $20 billion in 2025, up from about $6 billion in 2024 and $2 billion in 2023, which is roughly 10 times increase in two years.

At the center of this growth is what Friar describes as a compute-led revenue flywheel. "As we scale compute, we can train more capable models; more capable models drive more usage; more usage drives more revenue; and more revenue lets us invest in even more compute," she wrote. This cycle explains why r...