Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month “just from our API business”
- OpenAI has made more than $1 billion a month from something other than ChatGPT. — That revenue comes “just from our API business,” Sam Altman said.
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from ~35B in March 2025 to ~85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise has hit 8M subscribers
Google's improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company's top line. — Over the past year …
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from ~35B in March 2025 to ~85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise has hit 8M subscribers
Google's improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company's top line. — Over the past year, Google's business selling access …
Alibaba halves Qwen3-Max's prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars
The new pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China's foundational model market
A look at Anthropic's success in corporate AI, which makes up ~80% of its revenue; a July report put its enterprise API market share at 32%, above OpenAI's 25%
and it's all thanks to this one problem OpenAI can't solve Maria Garcia / Implicator.ai : Anthropic's finance push lands while revenue closes in on OpenAI Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia : Will India's t...
DeepSeek reopens API top-ups after suspending them on February 6 due to demand, as Alibaba previews its QwQ-Max model and the Chinese AI rivalry escalates
- It resumed service the same day Alibaba previewed a new model — AI development has quickened since DeepSeek's emergence
DeepSeek says it suspended letting customers top up their API credits, due to server capacity shortages after being overwhelmed with demand since January 2024
DeepSeek, the Chinese startup whose artificial-intelligence model roiled global markets last week, said it would restrict access …
Source: OpenAI told some shareholders that ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI's API increased seven-fold
Paid subscribers to ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, OpenAI recently told some shareholders …
OpenAI says ChatGPT weekly active users doubled since last year to 200M+, 92% of Fortune 500 companies use its tools, and automated API usage doubled since July
doubling in a year Laurent Giret / Thurrott : OpenAI Says ChatGPT Doubled its User Base to 200 Million Weekly Active Users in a Year Iskra Petrova / PhoneArena : ChatGPT weekly active users grow to 20...
OpenAI's move to cut off API access to Chinese developers sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup and will accentuate the divide between China and the US
- Local AI services from Baidu to 01.AI tout discount offers — The abrupt move sets the stage for a Chinese industry shakeup