# OpenAI says one model across products compounds its advantage

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- Speaker: [Sarah Friar](https://realalpha.app/builders/sarah-friar/) · Sarah Friar is CFO of OpenAI. · Leads OpenAI's finance as CFO; previously oversaw Square's 2015 IPO and helped take Nextdoor public as CEO.
- Host: [Chamath Palihapitiya](https://realalpha.app/people/chamath-palihapitiya/) · Founder & CEO, Social Capital · Led Facebook's growth team; his firm backed Slack and AI chipmaker Groq.
- Host: [Jason Calacanis](https://realalpha.app/people/jason-calacanis/) · Founder & CEO, LAUNCH · Early Uber angel; sold Weblogs Inc. to AOL; hosts This Week in Startups.
- Host: [David Sacks](https://realalpha.app/people/david-sacks/) · Co-founder & partner, Craft Ventures · PayPal's first COO, founded Yammer; White House AI & crypto czar 2025–26.
- Host: [David Friedberg](https://realalpha.app/people/david-friedberg/) · CEO, Ohalo · Founded The Climate Corporation, sold to Monsanto for about $1.1B in 2013.
- Show: All-In
- Episode: [OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/), Jun 2, 2026
- Moment: 3:20 to 7:43 of the episode (4 min), playing on https://realalpha.app/s/openai-says-one-model-across-products-compounds-its/; the episode from there: https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=200

## Quote

> “We think that because it's served up on one model, there's a **compounding element of advantage** that comes from that.”
> — [Sarah Friar](https://realalpha.app/builders/sarah-friar/) at [5:07](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=307) · All-In

## Takeaways

1. ChatGPT had more than 900 million weekly users.
2. Codex grew from almost zero in January to 5 million users.
3. Friar says revenue is becoming roughly split between consumer and enterprise.

## About this segment

Sarah Friar describes a single-model strategy spanning ChatGPT, Codex and enterprise tools. She says broad reach can build personalization, efficiency and a stronger position in compute.

From “OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute”, Jun 2, 2026. [Watch the full episode](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/)

## Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

[3:22](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=202) though a benefit to them going forward? And I think unpacking the rivalry with Anthropic is on everybody's minds. So just, I guess you can't talk too much about IPOs. So I'll just pivot to Anthropic was far behind and now they've really, I think everybody would agree in the industry now blown past OpenAI in terms of developers and corporations, and it seems revenue. So how did that happen at OpenAI when you had such a tremendous lead?

[3:54](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=234) How did Anthropic blow past you guys? So let's talk a little bit about a strategy. Strategy is different, right? So we are building the AI layer, the infrastructure, and it's really important that there's a single foundation, but then with many interfaces out into the world. So chat GPT is one to the consumer. Over 900 million people use chat GPT weekly, and it's become the noun and the verb. It's how most people experience AI for the first time. Kind of fun fact, Our economic research team just showed me the fastest-growing continents now are Africa.

[4:30](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=270) Probably not totally surprising since it started a small base. Fastest-growing languages are Azerbaijani and Kazakhstani. It's Kazakh, which is kind of incredible to talk about where it's going. So, multiple interfaces, ChatGPT. Of course, there's Codex. Just hit 5 million over the weekend. We're really proud of that. Coming from almost zero in January. Go Codex. Help me prepare for this little special up here, too.

[5:00](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=300) There's, of course, Frontier, our enterprise offering, and every other way that we can get out there to reach businesses of all sizes. That is a very different strategy. We think that because it's served up on one model, there's a compounding element of advantage that comes from that. More users, more data, more ability to personalize. Chachupiti asks as a front door. As models get bigger, there's more efficiency.

[5:25](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=325) That should lower the overall cost to give you a token in the world. That should compound to higher gross margins, ultimately more ways to pay for compute. And then access to compute is one of the really big competitive advantages at the moment. So we have to all run our own races, but we all have to recognize we're part of an ecosystem that also needs to bring people along collectively. Did you spread a little bit to then too many projects?

[5:51](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=351) People were talking about this new gadget, Sora, and then maybe not enough focus on enterprise. Is that a fair assessment of if there was a mistake in the last year, that was it? No, I think that the world loves to go to binarisms. Like, are you a consumer company, Sarah? Are you an enterprise company? The reality is we're very much both. We're not one or the other. Right now, our revenue is getting pretty balanced, about 50-50.

[6:15](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=375) We are incredibly focused on the enterprise. I spend so much of my time with, I mean, just even in the last week, I could tell you I've been to see Thermo Fisher in Boston. I was with a bunch of banks in New York. I was on the phone with travelers on Friday. I spent this morning on the phone with a tech company. It doesn't matter the vertical. People are really moving on AI right now. Our new head of revenue, Denise Dresser, in seat since December.

[6:41](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=401) She is a force of nature. And so I think the enterprise, broadly speaking, is really firing on all cylinders. But we don't want to leave the consumer behind. Remember, our mission at OpenAI is AGI for the benefit of humanity. Not for the benefit of humanity who can pay or for the benefit of humanity who live in an enterprise, but very broad-based. It's why we offer so much free, because we want people to get a taste.

[7:08](https://realalpha.app/v/TjrShuj_Zsg/?t=428) Once they get a taste of intelligence, the ability to come up a commitment curve is incredible. Our free users do about seven turns, seven questions a day. our first paid tier do double that about 15 our real paid tier with the plus 20 bucks hopefully you're all on it or higher about 3x and pro about 11x over a free user so remember when you got your flip phone and you're like yeah i don't know it does make some calls now that same phone think of all the things it does for you that's the path we're on with intelligence right now sorry you said