{"id":974528,"date":"2025-11-17T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974528"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:45:26","slug":"leaked-files-show-chatgpt-maker-openais-billion-dollar-payments-to-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/17\/leaked-files-show-chatgpt-maker-openais-billion-dollar-payments-to-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked files show ChatGPT-maker OpenAI\u2019s billion-dollar payments to Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT maker OpenAI is facing increasing financial scrutiny as new leaked documents offer a closer look at its revenues, spending and its complex financial ties with Microsoft. Quoting unnamed sources, Techcrunch reports that OpenAI shares 20% of its revenue with Microsoft under the multibillion-dollar investment deal between the companies. However, the same sources said Microsoft also pays OpenAI a share of revenue generated from Bing and the Azure OpenAI Service, which rely on OpenAI\u2019s technology. These payments are deducted internally before Microsoft reports its net revenue-share numbers, making the total flow of revenue between the companies harder to determine.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the reported 20% share, OpenAI\u2019s revenue would have been at least $2.5 billion in 2024 and $4.33 billion in the first nine months of 2025. Other reports, including those from The Information, have placed OpenAI\u2019s 2024 revenue closer to $4 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChatGPT maker OpenAI is facing increasing financial scrutiny as new leaked documents offer a closer look at its revenues, spending and its complex financial ties with Microsoft. Quoting unnamed sources, Techcrunch reports that OpenAI shares 20% of its revenue with Microsoft under the multibillion-dollar investment deal between the companies. However, the same sources said Microsoft also pays OpenAI a share of revenue generated from Bing and the Azure OpenAI Service, which rely on OpenAI\u2019s technology. These payments are deducted internally before Microsoft reports its net revenue-share numbers, making the total flow of revenue between the companies harder to determine. Based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}