OpenAI nears $70B revenue run rate, ChatGPT hits 1.2B weekly users

openai's annualized revenue rate has reached $70 billion, representing a 70 percent increase since the start of q3. the company reports that chatgpt now has 1.2 billion weekly users, while chatgpt work and codex have 35 million weekly users. additionally, 2.5 million businesses are using openai products. openai's growth is attributed to enterprise sales and an aggressive price war against competitors such as claude and chinese models. the company has recently launched gpt-6.1-sol and the codex coding assistant is also growing rapidly.