India, Dec. 27 -- What started as a clever chatbot that amazed the internet has quickly turned into one of the biggest, riskiest bets in modern tech. OpenAI is no longer just building software, it is signing contracts measured in gigawatts, billions of dollars, and entire power plants.

The USD 300 billion Oracle deal unlocks enormous scale, but it also ties OpenAI to a level of long-term spending that most technology companies have rarely had to manage. At this size, growth can save you or break you, so is OpenAI becoming too important to fail, or simply too expensive to survive?

From Breakthrough to Burn Rate: How OpenAI's Growth Outpaced Its Economics Since ChatGPT's launch in late 2022, OpenAI has grown at a pace few technology compa...