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OpenAI's annualized revenue in July exceeded the company's total revenue for the whole of the second quarter, CFO Sarah Friar told employees. That is the kind of number that ordinarily gets put in a press release.
The fact that it surfaced as internal reassurance, at a moment when Anthropic and a cohort of open-source competitors are moving fast, is the complication.
What the figure actually says Annualized revenue is a run-rate extrapolation: take a single month's intake and project it across twelve months.
If July's annualized rate clears the Q2 total, the company's revenue trajectory in that month alone was running well ahead of its average quarterly pace.
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