Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017
OpenAI expects to spend $50 billion on computing power this year to support its artificial intelligence software, according to co-founder and President Greg Brockman.
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OpenAI's Compute Bill: From $30M to $50B in Under a Decade
Greg Brockman revealed OpenAI expects to blow $50 billion on computing power in 2026, a staggering leap from $30M in 2017.
OpenAI's computing appetite has gone absolutely parabolic. Co-founder and President Greg Brockman testified that the company expects to spend $50 billion on computing power in 2026. For context, that figure was $30 million back in 2017.
That's roughly a 1,666x increase in less than a decade. Let that sink in.
Brockman dropped the number during his second day on the witness stand in the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial, the legal saga pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI's leadership. The massive spend underscores just how resource-hungry frontier AI development has become.
Training and running large-scale AI models demands enormous infrastructure. OpenAI's projected budget dwarfs what most companies spend on their entire operations — and it's all going to raw compute.