Bloomberg News reported that OpenAI President Greg Brockman disclosed the estimate while testifying May 5 in a court proceeding tied to a legal dispute with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The testimony came in litigation Musk filed against OpenAI. Musk alleges the company is abandoning its founding mission to develop AI for the public good and is seeking to shift toward a profit-driven structure. He sued CEO Sam Altman, Brockman and others.
Brockman said OpenAI’s computing costs have surged from about $30 million in 2017 to tens of billions of dollars this year, reflecting the growing computing power needed to build more advanced AI models and serve more users.
Since launching ChatGPT in late 2022 and helping ignite the generative AI boom, OpenAI has moved aggressively to secure AI chips and data centers. The company has not yet turned a profit, but it is widely seen as central to an AI infrastructure investment race involving major cloud providers and chipmakers.
OpenAI previously told investors in February that it plans to spend about $600 billion through 2030. The company has also said it has committed to investing more than $1.4 trillion in AI infrastructure over the coming years.
OpenAI recently raised $122 billion in funding, described as among the largest in Silicon Valley history, but concerns are growing about the financial strain from its massive AI infrastructure spending.
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