OpenAI: 2025 revenue hits $13.1B

OpenAI reported $13.1 billion in 2025 revenue while launching Sora and o1.

OpenAI is an American AI company that reported US$13.1 billion in revenue for 2025 and an estimated US$9 billion net loss. The company also launched the Sora video model and OpenAI o1, its early reasoning model, in December 2024.

What changed

OpenAI’s product lineup expanded from chat and code tools into video and reasoning. The company’s December 2024 releases included Sora, a text-to-video model, and o1, an early reasoning model that was internally codenamed strawberry.

Its corporate setup also changed. OpenAI began as a nonprofit in 2015, added for-profit subsidiaries in 2019, and later converted the main subsidiary into a public benefit corporation in 2025, with the nonprofit foundation holding 26% ownership.

• Founded in 2015 in Delaware as a nonprofit.
• Microsoft has invested over US$13 billion and provides Azure compute.
• OpenAI conducted a US$6.6 billion share sale in October 2025.
• The share sale valued the company at US$500 billion.

The company’s reported scale is now large enough to sit alongside major cloud and software vendors, not just model labs. Its 2025 figures show a business still losing money while spending heavily on research, infrastructure, and product rollout.

Why it matters

For developers, OpenAI remains a core source of models and APIs that shape how apps handle text, images, code, and video. The company’s move into reasoning and video widens the set of tasks builders can target, but it also raises dependency risk when a single vendor controls so many production workflows.

For the market, the numbers point to a company with huge demand and equally huge costs. Revenue growth does not yet offset losses, and the ongoing restructuring, Microsoft tie-up, and valuation jump suggest investors still see OpenAI as a central bet in generative AI.

OpenAI’s story now hinges on a simple question: can a model company with massive revenue, deep losses, and heavy infrastructure needs turn product momentum into a durable business?