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OpenAI Generates Over $1 Billion API Revenue
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Relevance ScoreOpenAI said on X that its API business added more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in the past month, CEO Sam Altman posted Thursday. The disclosure highlights the API infrastructure as a growing revenue engine as OpenAI faces soaring compute and data-center costs and explores ads and licensing to diversify monetization. The development underscores enterprise reliance on OpenAI models across startups and productivity tools.

