HMM: OpenAI CFO: We will more than triple our revenue this year.

“Revenue this year will grow over 3X. So about $13 billion in revenue from about $4 billion last year. So it’s tripling on a very big base as well,” OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told me at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference on Tuesday.

“It is a wild pace that we’re on. You’re defining a whole new era of AI,” Friar said. She declined to put a timetable on OpenAI becoming a public company.

It’s been an eventful year for OpenAI. The release of ChatGPT 5 in early August was met with mixed reviews as users complained about the interface’s less-human responses. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the company “screwed up” on the rollout.

A few weeks removed from this episode, Altman reportedly said the AI market was in a bubble.

Profits remain elusive as ever.