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

“$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.

I predict $0 by 2030. Let’s see who ends up closer.

40x revenue on ads? The amount of people in their platform cannot grow that much, so are they doing a speed run in Enshittification?

Did ChatGPT give them that figure?

And I'm projected to make 1.5M a year based on nothing as well.

No way in hell they can do it. Their model is atrocious. Anthropic will eat them.

Zitron is out there cackling in glee.

Is the AI writing the reports?

Is this projection or prediction…

doubt it, more like a made up number.

Hilarious. More like they’ll lose $100 billion by 2030.

That with the (alleged) family d*******?

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.

Source: Pulled from Sam Altman’s ass.

Uh-huh. So about those data centers and debt...

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.