{"id":22537,"date":"2026-03-31T07:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/if-openai-is-to-float-on-the-stock-market-this-year-it-needs-to-start-turning-a-profit\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:38:02","slug":"if-openai-is-to-float-on-the-stock-market-this-year-it-needs-to-start-turning-a-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/if-openai-is-to-float-on-the-stock-market-this-year-it-needs-to-start-turning-a-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poster child of the AI boom, valued at $850bn, needs to show strategic discipline after \u2018casting its net too wide\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>If OpenAI is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/30\/openai-1tn-stock-market-float-ipo\">going to float this year<\/a>, it has to get serious about its business model. The wow factor around the US company \u2013 the poster child of an AI industry boom that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jan\/30\/ai-bubble-mozilla\">stoked fears of a stock market bubble<\/a> \u2013 has been long established, but when will the profits come? The party can\u2019t go on for ever.<\/p>\n<p>The developer of ChatGPT is one of the biggest startups in the world and is now valued at $850bn (\u00a3645bn). Meanwhile, it is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/20\/openai-resets-spend-expectations-targets-around-600-billion-by-2030.html\">spending $600bn<\/a> on infrastructure (the amount it invests in datacentres and chips to power its AI models) by 2030. At least this is a reduction on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/10\/sam-altman-can-openai-profits-keep-pace\">initial estimate of $1.4tn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/31\/openai-stock-market-flotation-profit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e6204eded9fc393635b8048f88d00eedc9ae2b72\/1125_896_5266_4215\/master\/5266.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=aee02d5b8e50b4048b93bdaebdd5533c\" title=\"If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit\" \/>The poster child of the AI boom, valued at $850bn, needs to show strategic discipline after \u2018casting its net too wide\u2019<br \/>\nIf OpenAI is going to float this year, it has to get serious about its business model. The wow factor around the US company \u2013 the poster child of an AI industry boom that has stoked fears of a stock market bubble \u2013 has been long established, but when will the profits come? The party can\u2019t go on for ever.<br \/>\nThe developer of ChatGPT is one of the biggest startups in the world and is now valued at $850bn (\u00a3645bn). Meanwhile, it is reportedly spending $600bn on infrastructure (the amount it invests in datacentres and chips to power its AI models) by 2030. At least this is a reduction on an initial estimate of $1.4tn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poster child of the AI boom, valued at $850bn, needs to show strategic discipline after \u2018casting its net too wide\u2019 If OpenAI is going to float this year, it has to get serious about its business model. The wow factor around the US company \u2013 the poster child of an AI industry boom that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/if-openai-is-to-float-on-the-stock-market-this-year-it-needs-to-start-turning-a-profit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If OpenAI is to float on the stock market this year, it needs to start turning a profit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}