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News & Current Events Apr 13, 2026 at 7:22 AM

OpenAI projects $2.5 billion in ad revenue this year, $100 billion by 2030, Axios reports

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VelvetPressure Apr 13, 2026 +29
“$100 billion by 2030” sounds less like a projection and more like a pitch deck fantasy. If they actually hit that, regulators better wake up and treat this like the next Google, not a toy.
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NightWriter500 Apr 13, 2026 +30
I predict $0 by 2030. Let’s see who ends up closer.
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mazamundi Apr 13, 2026 +18
40x revenue on ads? The amount of people in their platform cannot grow that much, so are they doing a speed run in Enshittification?
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TheNesquick Apr 13, 2026 +12
They are just making up numbers. 
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Steve2911 Apr 13, 2026 +11
Did ChatGPT give them that figure?
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throwawayurwaste Apr 13, 2026 +8
And I'm projected to make 1.5M a year based on nothing as well.
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naruto3089 Apr 13, 2026 +4
No way in hell they can do it. Their model is atrocious. Anthropic will eat them.
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Visual_Fly_9638 Apr 13, 2026 +2
And even then if you look at the performance and the numbers that anthropic is putting up, they're heavily subsidized too even though they don't want to admit it. 
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bloodlessempress Apr 13, 2026 +3
Zitron is out there cackling in glee.
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Ratstail91 Apr 13, 2026 +1
Is the AI writing the reports?
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Dark_Mak__r Apr 13, 2026 +2
Is this projection or prediction…
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pittyh Apr 13, 2026 +2
doubt it, more like a made up number.
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Flatbreads Apr 13, 2026 +2
Hilarious. More like they’ll lose $100 billion by 2030.
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Visual_Fly_9638 Apr 13, 2026 +2
Hell they'll do that by 2028. 
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diefreetimedie Apr 13, 2026 +2
That with the (alleged) family d*******?
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kecaw Apr 13, 2026 +1
Just did a quick google search. And ... its cool that you have 2.5B from ad revenue! go get em tiger! Now how about that **16B loss projection coming for 2026 and a estimate 15.6B for 2025. AND a cummulative loss of 115B by 2029 ?!** Like Jesus! you want 100B by 2030? from ad's ? You wont even last till 2027 with those numbers.
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Kaliente13 Apr 13, 2026 +1
Source: Pulled from Sam Altman’s ass.
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S1gorJabjong Apr 13, 2026 +1
Uh-huh. So about those data centers and debt...
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MasterK999 Apr 13, 2026 +1
Bullshit. That would mean crazy user growth and the outlook for users who will pay for AI is worse now than in the last 2 years. Even Microsoft has been forced to admit that people simply don't want AI shoved into every product and the number of people who will pay for it is small. The number who will pay a large amount is even smaller.
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