AI Of The Coast

AI Of The Coast

The OpenAI Valuation Trap: Someone’s Math Is Wrong

$300 billion. That’s what the market says OpenAI is worth right now. Let’s do the math together, slowly, because the numbers are genuinely insane.

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Jiri "Skzites" Fiala
Mar 13, 2026
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$14B ARR. 21x revenue multiple. In a market where the underlying product — frontier model inference — is getting cheaper by approximately 80% per year. Competitors are open-sourcing their way to pari…

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